UID:
almafu_9959284151502883
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 205 pages).
ISBN:
1-4744-7647-3
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1-4744-2084-2
Series Statement:
Edinburgh critical studies in law, literature and the humanities
Content:
'Imagined States' examines representations of the law in British and Nigerian high-brow, middle-brow and popular fiction and journalism. It reads works by Chinua Achebe, Joyce Cary, Cyprian Ekwensi and Edgar Wallace, together with a range of Nigerian market literature and journalism.
Note:
Previously issued in print: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgements --
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Introduction: Literature, Imagination and the State of Exception --
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1 ‘Natural Justice, Equity and Good Conscience’: History, Politics and Law in Nigeria, 1900–1966 --
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2 ‘I Am the Law’: District Commissioner Fiction and the State of Exception --
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3 ‘Seeking a Legal Form’: Joyce Cary’s Mister Johnson --
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4 ‘Beast of No Nation’: Bribery, Corruption and Late Colonial Administration in No Longer at Ease --
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5 ‘Written in the Interest of the People’: Representing the Law in Cyprian Ekwensi and Market Literature --
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6 ‘Sensational Coverage of a Sensational Trial’: Treason, Journalism and the State --
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7 Violence and the Law in A Man of the People --
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Conclusion: Imagined States --
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Bibliography --
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Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4744-2083-4
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781474420846
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