Literature, law, and rhetorical performance in the anticolonial Atlantic
By: Anne W. Gulic
Publisher: The Ohio State University Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780814213025
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: History and criticism; African literature (English); Caribbean literature (English); Postcolonialism in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Black nation time: Haiti's textual foundations and generic novelty in the age of revolution; title: The romance of prodigal literacy: C.L.R. James's histories of rhetorical revolution in the black Atlantic; title: Declaring negritude: the universal declaration of human rights and Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal; title: If you could make the laws: popular authorship and the South African freedom charter; title: Novel constitutions: the genres of African decolonization; title: The right to opacity: Ngugi, Glissant, and radical multilingualism; title: Coda.