'Like a Mask Dancing': Law and Colonialism in Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God.
Whilst the study of law and literature is now well established in the western academy, little attention has been paid to portrayals of law in African literature. In addition, studies of the colonial state by lawyers, political scientists, and historians have neglected African fiction's long engageme...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Law & Society Vol. 27; no. 4 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2000
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