Imagined States : Law and Literature in Nigeria 1900-1966

Name: Imagined States
Brand: Edinburgh University Press
SKU: 9781474420839
Price: 20700 KES
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ISBN: 9781474420839

by Katherine Isobel Baxter

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Format Hardback

Book Series Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities

ISBN-10 1474420834

ISBN-13 9781474420839

Publisher Edinburgh University Press

Imprint Edinburgh University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Nov 17th, 2019

Print length 216 Pages

Weight 476 grams

Dimensions 24.20 x 16.10 x 1.30 cms

Product Classification: Literary theory Jurisprudence & philosophy of law Methods, theory and philosophy of law Law & society Law and society, sociology of law

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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.

Examines representations of the law in colonial and postcolonial fiction from and about Nigeria

Imagined States examines representations of the law in British and Nigerian high-brow, middle-brow and popular fiction and journalism. Drawing on a rich range of examples, the book focuses on the imaginative role that the state of exception played in the application of indirect rule during British colonialism and in the legal machinations of the postcolonial state. It reads works by Chinua Achebe, Joyce Cary, Cyprian Ekwensi and Edgar Wallace, together with a range of Nigerian market literature and journalism.

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