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Singing The Law Oral Jurisprudence And The Crisis Of Colonial Modernity In East African Literature Peter Leman

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Publisher: Liverpool University Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 2.72 MB

Pages: 272

Author: Peter Leman

ISBN: 9781789621136, 1789621135

Language: English

Year: 2020

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Singing The Law Oral Jurisprudence And The Crisis Of Colonial Modernity In East African Literature Peter Leman by Peter Leman 9781789621136, 1789621135 instant download after payment.

Singing the Law is about the legal lives and afterlives of oral cultures in East Africa, particularly as they appear within the pages of written literatures during the colonial and postcolonial periods. In examining these cultures, this book begins with an analysis of the cultural narratives of time and modernity that formed the foundations of British colonial law. Recognizing the contradictory nature of these narratives (i.e., both promoting and retreating from the Euro-centric ideal of temporal progress) enables us to make sense of the many representations of and experiments with non-linear, open-ended, and otherwise experimental temporalities that we find in works of East African literature that take colonial law as a subject or point of critique. Many of these works, furthermore, consciously adapt orature as an expressive form with legal authority. This affords them the capacity to challenge the narrative foundations of colonial law and its postcolonial residues and offer
alternative models of temporality and modernity that give rise, in turn, to alternative forms of legality. East Africa's "oral jurisprudence" ultimately has implications not only for our understanding of law and literature in colonial and postcolonial contexts, but more broadly for our understanding of how the global south has shaped modern law as we know and experience it today.