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Law, Orientalism and Postcolonialism The Jurisdiction of the Lotus-Eaters
By Piyel Haldar
Copyright 2008
200 Pages
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Routledge-Cavendish
198 Pages
by
Routledge-Cavendish
198 Pages
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Routledge-Cavendish
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Focusing on the ‘problem’ of pleasure Law, Orientalism and Postcolonialism uncovers the organizing principles by which the legal subject was colonized. That occidental law was complicit in colonial expansion is obvious. What remains to be addressed, however, is the manner in which law and legal discourse sought to colonize individual subjects as subjects of law. It was through the... Read more
1. Introduction: The Colonization of the Legal Subject 2. Plato and Orientalism 3. The Sultan’s Enjoyment 4. Envy and Subjectivity in Orientalism 5. Ex Oriente Lex: Orientalism and the Colonisation of Sublime Enjoyment 6. Anglican Pleasures in the Orient: Staging the Rule of Law 7. Conclusion: Dust is Miscarried
Biography
Piyel Wiliams
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