TY  - GEN
T1  - Imagined states : law and literature in Nigeria, 1900-1966
T2  - Edinburgh critical studies in law, literature and the humanities.
A1  - Baxter, Katherine Isobel, 1976-
LA  - English
PP  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
YR  - 2019
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1130256739
AB  - 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.
OP  - 205
CN  - PR9387
SN  - 9781474420846
SN  - 1474420842
SN  - 9781474476478
SN  - 1474476473
SN  - 1474420834
SN  - 9781474420839
SN  - 9781474420853
KW  - Nigerian literature (English) : History and criticism.
KW  - Law in literature.
KW  - Littérature nigériane (anglaise) : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Droit dans la littérature.
KW  - Law in literature
KW  - Nigerian literature (English)
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -