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Periodical issue | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Law and South African literature |
Editor: | Lenta, Patrick |
Year: | 2010 |
Periodical: | Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa (ISSN 2159-9130) |
Volume: | 22 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 207 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | literature law |
About persons: | William Bloke Modisane (1923-1986) Jonny Steinberg (1970-) Imraan Coovadia |
Abstract: | The three main strands of law and literature scholarship - law in literature, law as literature, and the legal regulation of literature - are represented in this special issue of 'Current Writing', the purpose of which is to promote, in a South African context, pedagogy and research directed towards a blending of two fields that have until recently 'been programmatically disjoined by each discipline's self-regard'. Contributions: Introduction: law and South African literature (Patrick Lenta); Fables of death: law, race and representations of African mine workers in 'Umteteli wa Bantu' in the 1920s (Khwezi Mkhize); Writing the South African Treason Trial (Stephen Clingman); Postcolonial violence: narrating South Africa, May 2008 (Corinne Sandwith); Fences (Carrol Clarkson); Law, subject de/formation and resistance in Bloke Modisane's 'Blame me on history' (Patrick Lenta); Coded narratives of Nongoloza, Doggy Dog: narrating the self and nation in Jonny Steinberg's 'The number' (Isaac Ndlovu); Ambiguous bodies, authentic bodies: terrorists, passports, and immigration law in the post 9/11 world (on Imran Coovadia's novel 'Green-eyed thieves', 2006) (M. Neelika Jayawardane); 'It is not crime in the way you see it': crime discourses and outlaw culture in 'Yizo Yizo' (Innocentia Jabulisile Mhlambi). [ASC Leiden abstract] |