Indigeneity: Before and Beyond the Law

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.

Informationen zum Autor Kathleen Birrell is based at Melbourne Law School, Australia. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART I: NARRATIVES Introduction The Question of Indigeneity (Mis)recognising Indigeneity The Legal Indigene Performing Indigeneity Unsettling Indigeneity The Literary Indigene A Strange Play Puncturing the Horizon Positioning To Speak of the Other Synopsis PART II: INDIGENEITY Introduction An Imperial Orientation Subjects of Empire An Impossible Object Return of the Native The Proper Indigene The Legal Archive An Originary Indigeneity An Essential Ghost Indigeneity as Other Desiring Indigeneity Before the Law PART III: LAW Introduction Juridical Violence The Madness of the Decision Justice as Law An Idea of Justice Legitimate Fictions The Last Uncharted Continent The Colonial Gaze Origin and Content Mythic Indigeneity The Ancient Tribe Law as Literature PART IV: LITERATURE Introduction A Fictive Institution The Postcolonial Project Mimetic Indigeneities Becoming Indigeneity (Re)imagining Indigeneity A Law of Alterity A Subversive Juridicity Recuperative Jurisprudences Decolonising Country Beyond the Law To Conclude ...

Autorentext

Kathleen Birrell is based at Melbourne Law School, Australia.

Inhalt

PART I: NARRATIVES

Introduction

The Question of Indigeneity

(Mis)recognising Indigeneity

The Legal Indigene

Performing Indigeneity

Unsettling Indigeneity

The Literary Indigene

A Strange Play

Puncturing the Horizon

Positioning

To Speak of the Other

Synopsis

PART II: INDIGENEITY

Introduction

An Imperial Orientation

Subjects of Empire

An Impossible Object

Return of the Native

The Proper Indigene

The Legal Archive

An Originary Indigeneity

An Essential Ghost

Indigeneity as Other

Desiring Indigeneity

Before the Law

PART III: LAW

Introduction

Juridical Violence

The Madness of the Decision

Justice as Law

An Idea of Justice

Legitimate Fictions

The Last Uncharted Continent

The Colonial Gaze

Origin and Content

Mythic Indigeneity

The Ancient Tribe

Law as Literature

PART IV: LITERATURE

Introduction

A Fictive Institution

The Postcolonial Project

Mimetic Indigeneities

Becoming Indigeneity

(Re)imagining Indigeneity

A Law of Alterity

A Subversive Juridicity

Recuperative Jurisprudences

Decolonising Country

Beyond the Law

To Conclude