New directions in law and literature

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Where to find it

Law Library — 1st Floor Collection (1st floor)

Call Number
PNh6.L33 N48 2017
Status
Available

Summary

After its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, many wondered whether the law and literature movement would retain vitality. This collection of essays, featuring twenty-two prominent scholars from literature departments as well as law schools, showcases the vibrancy of recent work in the field while highlighting its many new directions.

New Directions in Law and Literature furnishes an overview of where the field has been, its recent past, and its potential futures. Some of the essays examine the methodological choices that have affected the field; among these are concern for globalization, the integration of approaches from history and political theory, the application of new theoretical models from affect studies and queer theory, and expansion beyond text to performance and the image. Others grapple with particular intersections between law and literature, whether in copyright law, competing visions of alternatives to marriage, or the role of ornament in the law's construction of racialized bodies.

The volume is designed to be a course book that is accessible to undergraduates and law students as well as relevant to academics with an interest in law and the humanities. The essays are simultaneously intended to be introductory and addressed to experts in law and literature. More than any other existing book in the field, New Directions furnishes a guide to the most exciting new work in law and literature while also situating that work within more established debates and conversations.

Contents

Minding previous steps taken / Brook Thomas -- Who wouldn't want to be a person? : histories of the present in law and literature / Caleb Smith -- From charisma to routinization and beyond : speculations on the future of the study of law and literature / Austin Sarat -- There's no such thing as interpreting a text / Martin Jay Stone -- Retrospective prophecies : legal narrative constructions / Peter Brooks -- Law's affective thickets / Ravit Reichman -- Paranoia, feminism, law : reflections on the possibilities for queer legal studies / Janet Halley -- Proof and probability : law, imagination, and the forms of things unknown / Lorna Hutson -- Law, literature, and history : the love triangle / Bernadette Meyler -- Pictures as precedents : the visual turn and the status of figures in judgments / Peter Goodrich -- Law as performance : historical interpretation, objects, lexicons, and other methodological problems / Julie Stone Peters -- Globalizing law and literature / Elizabeth S. Anker -- Ornament and law / Anne Anlin Cheng -- The flowers are vexed : gender justice, black literature, and the passionate utterance / Imani Perry -- Genocide by other means : US federal Indian law and violence against Native women in Louise Erdrich's The Round House / Eric Cheyfitz and Shari M. Huhndorf -- Pluralism, religion, and democratic culture : Nadeem Aslam's Maps for Lost Lovers / Elliott Visconsi -- Regulatory fictions : on marriage and countermarriage / Elizabeth F. Emens -- Legal and literary fictions / Simon Stern -- Copyright and intellectual property / Paul K. Saint-Amour -- Replicant being : law and strange life in the age of biotechnology / Priscilla Wald -- Weak reparation : law and literature networked / Wai Chee Dimock.

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