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Imperial Justice explores the imperial control of judicial governance and the adjudication of colonial difference in British Africa. Focusing on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the colonial regional Appeal Courts for West Africa and East Africa, it examines how judicial discourses of native difference and imperial universalism in local disputes influenced practices of power in colonial settings and shaped an evolving jurisprudence of Empire. Arguing that the Imperial Appeal Courts were key sites where colonial legal modernity was fashioned, the book examines the tensions that p
Appellate courts --- History. --- Great Britain. --- West African Court of Appeal --- Courts of appeals --- Supreme courts --- Courts --- Appellate procedure --- Courts of last resort --- East African Court of Appeal --- H.M. Court of Appeal for Eastern Africa --- Court of Appeal for Eastern Africa --- Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (Great Britain) --- Court of Appeals from the Plantations (Great Britain) --- JCPC --- Caribbean Court of Justice
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Situated at the intersection of law and literature, nineteenth-century studies and post-colonialism, Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination draws on original archival research to shed new light on Victorian literature. Each chapter explores the relationship between the shared cultural logic of law and literature, and considers how this inflected colonial sociality. Leila Neti approaches the legal archive in a distinctly literary fashion, attending to nuances of voice, character, diction and narrative, while also tracing elements of fact and procedure, reading the case summaries as literary texts to reveal the common turns of imagination that motivated both fictional and legal narratives. What emerges is an innovative political analytic for understanding the entanglements between judicial and cultural norms in Britain and the colony, bridging the critical gap in how law and literature interact within the colonial arena.
English fiction --- Justice, Administration of --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Law and literature --- History and criticism. --- History --- Great Britain. --- Administration of justice --- Law --- Courts --- Literature and law --- Literature --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Law and legislation --- Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (Great Britain) --- Court of Appeals from the Plantations (Great Britain) --- JCPC --- Caribbean Court of Justice
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