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.
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.
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Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities
Katherine Isobel Baxter is Reader in English Literature at Northumbria University. She is the author of 'Joseph Conrad and the Swan Song of Romance' (2010) and the co-editor of 'The Edinburgh Companion to the First World War and the Arts' (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 'Conrad and Language' (Edinburgh University Press, 2016) and 'Joseph Conrad and the Performing Arts' (2009). She is general editor of the journal 'English'.
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Acknowledgements Introduction: Literature, Imagination and the State of Exception Chapter One: 'Natural Justice, Equity and Good Conscience': History, Politics and Law in Nigeria, 1900-1966 Chapter Two: 'I am the law': District Commissioner Fiction and the State of Exception Chapter Three: 'Seeking a Legal Form': Joyce Cary's Mister Johnson Chapter Four: 'Beast of No Nation': Bribery, Corruption, and Late Colonial Administration in No Longer At Ease Chapter Five: 'Written in the Interest of the People': Representing the Law in Cyprian Ekwensi and Market Literature Chapter Six: 'Sensational Coverage of a Sensational Trial': Treason, Journalism and the State Chapter Seven: Violence and the Law in A Man of the People Conclusion: Imagined States Bibliography.
Acknowledgements Introduction: Literature, Imagination and the State of Exception Chapter One: 'Natural Justice, Equity and Good Conscience': History, Politics and Law in Nigeria, 1900-1966 Chapter Two: 'I am the law': District Commissioner Fiction and the State of Exception Chapter Three: 'Seeking a Legal Form': Joyce Cary's Mister Johnson Chapter Four: 'Beast of No Nation': Bribery, Corruption, and Late Colonial Administration in No Longer At Ease Chapter Five: 'Written in the Interest of the People': Representing the Law in Cyprian Ekwensi and Market Literature Chapter Six: 'Sensational Coverage of a Sensational Trial': Treason, Journalism and the State Chapter Seven: Violence and the Law in A Man of the People Conclusion: Imagined States Bibliography.
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