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Singing the Law - Oral Jurisprudence and the Crisis of Colonial Modernity in East African Literature (Paperback)
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Singing the Law - Oral Jurisprudence and the Crisis of Colonial Modernity in East African Literature (Paperback)
Series: Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines, 24
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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 appropriate 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.
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