Literature, law, and rhetorical performance in the anticolonial Atlantic / Anne W. Gulick

Author:: Gulick, Anne W.
Published:: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2016]
Copyright Date:: ©2016
Physical Description:: xi, 258 pages ; 24 cm

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Contents:

Black nation time: Haiti's textual foundations and generic novelty in the age of revolution -- The romance of prodigal literacy: C.L.R. James's histories of rhetorical revolution in the black Atlantic -- Declaring negritude: the universal declaration of human rights and Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal -- If you could make the laws: popular authorship and the South African freedom charter -- Novel constitutions: the genres of African decolonization -- The right to opacity: Ngugi, Glissant, and radical multilingualism.

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Criticism, interpretation, etc

ISBN:

9780814213025 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0814213022 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-247) and index.

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