Year: 2004
Type: article
Abstract: An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" Lauding editors on these occasions is rightly suspect, but here it is simply unavoidable.Gary Boire's pathbreaking, of course, conspectus and analysis of colonial law and postcolonial literature provides not only a point of departure for my paper but also its generative orientation -a continuing on the path broken.Briefly, for now, Boire draws on representations of law in postcolonial literatures to reveal a disruptive ambivalence in colonial law.Bluntly, for now, I will try to show how that ambivalence also constitutes law, and not just colonial law, and try to show how this constitution of law can be derived from a quality of literature, and not just postcolonial literatures.All of which will not involve minimizing or marginalizing the postcolonial in its relation to law or to literature.On the contrary, the postcolonial will provide the focal opening to these perceptions of law and of literature more generally conceived.And, it will transpire, the postcolonial does this with an apt irony, an irony
Source: Ariel
Author: Peter Fitzpatrick
Language: English
Topic: Law in Society and Culture
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1591936892