Frans-Willem Korsten (Leiden University, the Netherlands)
This book looks at the way in which the ‘call for justice’ is portrayed through art and presents a wide range of texts from film to theatre to essays and novels to interrogate the law. ‘Calls for justice’ may have their positive connotations, but throughout history most have caused annoyance. Art is very well suited to deal with such annoyance, or to provoke it. This study shows how art operates as an interface, here, between two spheres: the larger realm of justice and the more specific system of law. This interface has a double potential. It can make law and justice affirm or...
This book looks at the way in which the ‘call for justice’ is portrayed through art and presents a wide range of texts from film to theatre to ess...