Legal Oppositional Narrative: A Case Study in Cameroon - Couverture rigide

Bishop, Stephen L.

 
9780739113189: Legal Oppositional Narrative: A Case Study in Cameroon
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ISBN 10 : 0739113186 ISBN 13 : 9780739113189
Editeur : Lexington Books, 2008

Synopsis

This book examines the possibilities of opposition to government-supported, dominant social orders through legal writing using post-Independence (1960-61) Cameroon as its example. Legal writing in this case encompasses traditional fictional works such as novels, plays, and short stories that deal with legal themes, settings, and language, but also works that are less-often considered as traditional narratives such as legal case decisions, textbooks, and articles. An investigation of such Cameroonian texts demonstrates the potential uses and effectiveness of oppositional narrative, as defined by such authors as Ross Chambers and Michel de Certeau, within postcolonial legal systems in order to influence a different reading of the legal and social order.
The investigation treats both narratives of resistance and oppositionality, and concludes that oppositional literary and legal storytelling offers more hope for subverting and changing the dominant social discourse than more conventional means of legal resistance. Although the two approaches overlap, oppositional legal narratives offer greater opportunity for fostering lasting social justice than legal narratives of resistance, especially within the legal system of Cameroon, which is both unduly influenced by an oppressive government and singular in its organization. This system is split between indigenous legal traditions, Francophone civil code law, Anglophone common law, and thus it presents a complex, pluralistic legal and social atmosphere that is unsuitable for dictatorial, revolutionary change while at the same time offering potential discursive space for oppositional writing and reading.

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À propos de l?auteur

Stephen L. Bishop is associate professor of French and Francophone literature at the University of New Mexico.

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Éditeur
Lexington Books
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0739113186
ISBN 13 
9780739113189
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
188
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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