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

Published Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2016] ©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 258 pages) 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 : Ngũgĩ, Glissant, and radical multilingualism Summary "The era of national liberation and decolonization may have come and gone, but postcolonialism remains a largely elusive ideal in the early twenty-first century. In Literature, Law, and Rhetorical Performance in the Anticolonial Atlantic, Anne W. Gulick uncovers a dynamic literary history of African and Caribbean critical engagements with First World law. This transatlantic archive attests to the continuing vitality of anticolonialism as a model for intellectual inquiry and political performance. Gulick argues that experimentation with declarative forms is a vital rhetorical strategy in the anticolonial Atlantic--one through which writers have asked: Who gets to "write" the law, and under what circumstances?" "Responses to this question take shape across the black Atlantic from Haiti to South Africa, in texts ranging from Haiti's Declaration of Independence and work by C. L. R. James to South Africa's Freedom Charter, Aimé Césaire's poem Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's A Grain of Wheat. These texts constitute a robust transatlantic tradition of challenging colonial and imperial authority through rhetorical performance. Drawing on the cosmopolitan aspirations and emancipatory energies of the political declaration, this tradition aims to radically reinvent the possibilities for law and political belonging in the postcolonial future"--Publisher's description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-247) and index Notes Print version record Subject Law and literature -- Atlantic Ocean Region Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- Atlantic Ocean Region Postcolonialism in literature. National liberation movements in literature. African literature (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism Caribbean literature (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric. African literature (English) Caribbean literature (English) Law and literature. National liberation movements in literature. Postcolonialism in literature. Rhetoric -- Political aspects. Atlantic Ocean Region. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism. Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780814274415 0814274412

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