Spring 2019
Published: 2019-12-03
Articles
Introduction: Law and Literature from the Global South
1–10
Abstract
In his essay, “Violence and the Word,” the late legal scholar Robert Cover offers an unusual definition of law as “the projection of an imagined...
Dharma, Law, and Individualism in the Age of Empire: Literature of the Colonized in British India
11–28
Abstract
In recent decades, the field of Law and Literature has increasingly drawn criticism from scholars for its exclusive focus on the Anglo-American...
The Sexual Subaltern in Court: The Queer and Inter-Caste Obscenities of Ismat Chughtai's "Lihaaf" and Saadat Hasan Manto's "Boo"
29–46
Abstract
In November 1946, Ismat Chughtai and Saadat Hasan Manto entered the Lahore High Court, indignant at the charges of obscenity being hurled at their...
"Trespassers Will be Persecuted": Oil and Property Law in Ben Okri's "What the Tapster Saw"
47–64
Abstract
A movement appears to be underway in certain areas of property jurisprudence to recalibrate property law for more equitable and life-sustaining...
From the Revenge Quest to the Reconciliation Journey: Munyurangabo's Redefining of Warriorship in Rwanda
65–80
Abstract
For most of the twentieth century, Rwandan society was plagued by a revenge cycle of oppression and violence between the Hutu and Tutsi ethnicities...
“Over and against [the law]”: Migration, Secularism and Women of Color Feminisms in "The Satanic Verses" and "The Year of the Runaways"
81–94
AbstractAfter his demonic transformation and his subsequent eviction from his marital home, Salman Rushdie’s protagonist Saladin Chamcha wonders: “For...
Law Enforcement in Egyptian TV Series
95–112
AbstractThe counter-hegemonic Theory from the South (2012), which inspires this collection, invites scholars to turn around the leading epistemic...