Ted Laros

Literature and the Law in South Africa, 1910-2010

The Long Walk to Artistic Freedom

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Produktbeschreibung

On the basis of institutional and poetological analyses of legal trials concerning literature held in South Africa during the period 1910-2010, this study describes how the battles fought in and around the courts between literary, judicial, and executive elites eventually led to a constitutional exceptio artis (artistic freedom) for literature.

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Produktdetails

• The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 551g
• ISBN-13: 9781683930150
• ISBN-10: 1683930150
• Artikelnr.: 48894851

Autorenporträt

Ted Laros is assistant professor of literary studies at the Open University of the Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: Literature in Law Part
I: Legal Groundwork, 1910-55 Chapter One: Preparing the Ground for
Autonomization Part II: Hesitant Legal Recognition, 1955-75 Chapter Two:
The 1965 Trials: Wilbur Smith's When the Lion Feeds andCan Themba's "The
Fugitives" Chapter Three:  The 1974 Trial of André Brink's Kennis van die
Aand Part III: Despite Rollback Efforts, Ongoing Recognition, 1975-80
Chapter Four: The 1978 Case of Etienne Leroux's Magersfontein, O
Magersfontein! Part IV: Decisive Legal Recognition, 1980-2010 Chapter Five:
(The Road to) Constitutional Autonomy Chapter Six: Conclusion Works Cited
Index