Indigeneity: Before and Beyond the Law

By Kathleen Birrell

Book Overview

This book is concerned with the contrasting juridical narratives of the coloniser and the colonised - specifically, of non-Indigenous and Indigenous law - and their expression in law and literature. While the Indigene before the law is subject to the violence of its determinate impositions, this book draws on a range of contemporary theorists to argue that Indigenous narrative, particularly as it appears in Indigenous authored literature, evokes a disruptive and transformative dynamism within non-Indigenous law. In so doing, the book addresses the troubled juxtaposition of law and justice.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138793329
• ISBN13: 9781138793323
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"