Globalizing Law and Literature

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth S. Anker
Keyword(s):  
Slave Trade ◽  
Law And Literature ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Long Poem ◽  
The Status ◽  
Historical Role ◽  
Globalization Of Law

The globalization of law and literature has trained attention on the historical role played by law in institutions like slavery and colonization, at the same time prompting questions about the neoimperial effects of an array of contemporary legal constructs and practices. These emphases have often created the presumption that law should foremost be an object of critique, and many widely read and taught literary texts have reinforced that suspicion. This chapter reads M. NourbeSe Philio’s Zong!, a long poem that contends with the legal system’s facilitation of the slave trade, to contend with the historical violence licensed by law. Yet the status of law under globalization is more complicated, and this chapter also analyzes law as a networked, dispersed phenomenon that can be both capacitating and ripe for manipulation. Nuruddin Farah’s novel Gifts illustrates many of these alternate dimensions of law and legality in an increasingly enmeshed, interdependent world.

scholarly journals Law and Literature: A Review of Interdisciplinary Literary Texts

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 79-90
Author(s):  
Raj Kishor Singh
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Law And Literature ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Legal Language ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences

This paper explores and recognizes common points of intersection of law and literature. Different literary texts have legal language, court scenes, cross examinations, lawyers, witnesses, judge, and audience. The main focus of this paper is to identify such events from literary texts and also to present instances that people take into the courts from literary texts. Law and literature originate and develop, after all, from the same culture and society. Humanities and social sciences are common grounds of origin and development of law and literature. They are related with each other. They do have correlation on the basis of culture, social norms and values, and humanities. In this paper, they discussed on the grounds of cognitive and behaviouristic aspects of human life.

Second chances in the second city: Public housing and prisoner reentry in Chicago

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 587-606
Author(s):  
Madeleine Hamlin
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Mass Incarceration ◽  
Criminal Records ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated ◽  
Chicago Housing Authority ◽  
The Status ◽  
Historical Role ◽  
Number Of Individuals

In November 2014, the Chicago Housing Authority approved a pilot program to allow a limited number of individuals with criminal records to live in their housing programs. In this article, I contend that the pilot provides an important opportunity to institutionally recognize and extend material benefits to formerly incarcerated individuals for whom housing is both especially difficult to secure and especially important to find. Drawing on Wacquant, I argue that the pilot also offers an opening for key institutions of urban governance, such as housing authorities, to acknowledge their own role in perpetuating a pervasive “carceral continuum” that disciplines the urban poor and feeds mass incarceration. However, drawing on interviews with pilot organizers and participants, I show how the pilot responds to and replicates pervasive fears of crime that link poverty and criminality in particular. As a result, its cautious experimental design relegates participants to the status of test cases and exceptions, rather than normalizing their presence in public housing. The pilot further relies on a problematic and paradoxical understanding of “return” that obscures public housing’s historical role in the carceral continuum. In all of these ways, the logics of this pilot and others like it remain limited, thus undermining their potential to disrupt such carceral continuities.

Self-Consumption and Compromised Rebirth in Dabydeen’s “Turner”

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-239
Author(s):  
Veronica J. Austen
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Long Poem ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Cultural Regeneration

This article, which focuses on David Dabydeen’s long poem “Turner” (1994), addresses acts of eating/excreting as reflections of power relations while also figuring cultural regeneration as a pursuit of nourishment. Through acts of consumption, the speaker of “Turner” seeks to forge a continuum whereby the past feeds the future and the future satiates the emptiness caused by colonialism and the slave trade. Nevertheless, in “Turner,” this emptiness cannot be overcome, and acts of cultural feeding are not regenerative but instead destructively self-consumptive.

The Numbers Game and the Profitability of the British Trade in Slaves

1985 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 693-703 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Darity
Keyword(s):  
Slave Trade ◽  
British Trade ◽  
The Status ◽  
Controversial Topic ◽  
Atlantic Slave Trade ◽  
Rate Of Profit ◽  
Numbers Game

More than a century after its termination the slave trade in Africa remains a controversial topic. In particular, disputes continue to wax strong over the profitability of the Atlantic slave trade, on three major dimensions: first, the degree of competition characteristic of the market in slaves; second, the typical magnitude of the rate of profit achieved by enterprises engaged in the “peculiar” industry; third, the status of Eric Williams's hypothesis on the contribution of the slave trade to European industrialization.

Language Policy in South Asia

1981 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 60-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Braj B. Kachru
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
National Language ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
The Political ◽  
Language Policies ◽  
The Status ◽  
Regional Languages

In the political divisions within South Asia there has traditionally been no organized effort for language policies.1 Language was essentially related to one's caste, village, district, and state. Beyond this, one identified with languages associated with religion (Sanskrit or Arabic), or learned and literary texts (mainly Sanskrit and Persian). At the time of Indian independence (1947), one task of the new government was to unravel the status and position of almost 560 sovereign states which were ruled by an array of mahārājās, nawābs, and lesser luminaries, depending on the size and the revenue of each state and subdivision. Each state state was a kindgom unto itself, and such political divisions did not foster a national language policy. In India, the largest country in South Asia, four languages were used for wider communication as bazār languages or languages of literature and intranational communication: Hindi (and its varieties, Hindustani and Urdu), Sanskrit, Persian, and later, English (cf., for Sanskrit, Kachru and Sridhar 1978; Sharma 1976; for English, Kachru 1969; 1982a). The Hindus tended to send their children to a pāṭhśālā (traditional Hindu school mainly for scriptural education) for the study of the scriptures and some basic knowledge of the śāastras (Sanskrit instructional texts, treatise), and the Muslims tended to send their children to a maktab (traditional school for Koranic instruction). The denominational schools (vidyāZaya) provided liberal arts instruction in Sanskrit, Persian, Hindi, Arabic, or in the regional languages.

Foreigners and Strangers

2019 ◽  
pp. 89-99
Author(s):  
Susan Rubin Suleiman
Keyword(s):  
Law And Literature ◽  
Literary Discourse ◽  
French Law ◽  
The Status

Susan Rubin Suleiman’s essay explores the status of Jews as foreigners and ‘other’—as étrangers—in French law and literature of the 1920s and 30s. Her essay traces the changes in French law that occurred around Jews and foreigners, as well as the concurrent shifts in social and literary discourse. A toxic dichotomy became part of the overall discourse, ‘opposing the Jewish other as an existential threat to the French same.’ Suleiman argues that that dichotomy is applicable to other minorities, pointing to contemporary debates about Muslims in France.

Auteurs and Authenticity: Adapting the Brontës in the Twenty-First Century

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelley Anne Galpin
Keyword(s):  
Source Material ◽  
First Century ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Jane Eyre ◽  
Wuthering Heights ◽  
Artistic Style ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
The Status ◽  
Selling Point ◽  
Film Making

This article examines two recent adaptations of Brontë novels and how they relate to discussions surrounding the adaptation of literary texts into film. The position of Cary Joji Fukunaga and Andrea Arnold as auteurs is considered, as is the way in which this was used in the marketing of the films prior to release. Fukunaga's Jane Eyre (2011) and Arnold's Wuthering Heights (2011) are evaluated as examples of British film-making in terms of heritage/anti-heritage discourses, concluding that while they both reject aspects of the traditional ‘heritage film’, overtly in Arnold's film but more subtly in Fukunaga's, neither can escape the notion of authenticity which is central to discussions surrounding adaptation of classic literature. Although apparently more ‘faithful’, Fukunaga's film stops short of the adherence to source material that was emphasised in the pre-release publicity, ironically suppressing Fukunaga's auteurist vision, while Arnold's more overtly auteurist vision is shown to present difficulties over the issue of authorship when adapting a ‘literary great’. Finally, the article considers the commercial and critical success of both films, noting that the status of both directors as auteurs is a selling point prior to release, but that when tackling period material it can be something of a hindrance in terms of both the commerciality and the artistic style of the piece.

“Undesirable Immigrants”: The Language of Law and Literature in Joseph Conrad’s “Amy Foster”

Pólemos ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-312
Author(s):  
Tania Zulli
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
Law And Literature ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
Dynamic Relationship ◽  
The Social

Abstract Over the last few decades, the field of law and literature studies has increasingly focused on the importance of literary texts in the interpretation of legal doctrines developing wider perspectives on society and on the law’s effect on the community itself. By considering the dynamic relationship between narrative works and legal documents, the present analysis proposes a reading of Joseph Conrad’s short story “Amy Foster” (1901), which focusses on the investigation of the social and political aspects of migration in late nineteenth-century Britain. Echoes of the migrant figure as represented in Conrad’s story can be found in the Aliens Act, the law passed by the British government in 1905 to regulate the flux of migrants from Eastern Europe. Taking into account the legal value of the Aliens Act and the social consequences of its application, the article will first examine general views on migration at the beginning of the twentieth century, and will later explore the language used in the statute and its relevance in the short story. To this end, the notion of “undesirable immigrant,” first introduced to describe migrants with well-defined characteristics, is anticipated by Joseph Conrad in “Amy Foster” whose protagonist, Yanko Goorall, is an emigrant from Eastern Europe. Conrad’s fictional representation of Goorall as an “undesirable immigrant” allows us to reflect on how his writing deals with (and anticipates) events and socio-cultural trends.

A Revenger’s Tragedy

Pólemos ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Ward
Keyword(s):  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Law And Literature ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Human Dimension ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
Revenge Porn ◽  
Dramatic Presentation

AbstractFrom its very inception modern “law and literature” scholarship has exhibited at least as much interest in what happens in the classroom as it has in what happens in the courtroom. Its principal ambition is educative, its primary audience student. In a strategic sense it hopes that the deployment of literary texts might enhance a law student’s appreciation of the human dimension of legal practice. The first part of this article will set the jurisprudential context, taking a closer look at the evolving legal regulation of “revenge porn,” as well as the critical debate which this regulation has stimulated. The second will then consider the dramatic presentation of the same issues and arguments in Placey’s play. According to Placey, any “time we write a script, we’re hoping in some way people will listen, that our words might have an effect, that they might shake people.”

scholarly journals The Purity Of The Mother Tongue Is The Quality And Value Of The Nation

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (01) ◽  
pp. 324-327
Author(s):  
Kurbonova D ◽  
◽  
Abduolimova M ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
The State ◽  
The Status ◽  
Historical Role ◽  
State Protection ◽  
State Language

The article analyzes the status of the Uzbek language as the state language, its historical role in the life of the Uzbek people and its state protection with the help of scientific literature.

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