Peter Leman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3815760 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Leman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Leman |
| SIGNATURE | LEMAN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Politics of Living Death in Nuruddin Farah's Sweet and Sour Milk
This article examines Nuruddin Farah's 1979 novel Sweet and Sour Milk, asking how we read representations of postcolonial mourning and living death in the context of global authoritarianism. The first novel in Farah's influential dictatorship trilogy, Sweet and Sour Milk introduces us to “the General,” a fictionalized version of Siyad Barre, who ruled Somalia from 1969 to 1991. Like Barre's, the General's power exemplifies what Achille Mbembe cal…
Law and Transnational Utopias in East African Fiction
This essay offers a reading of utopian and dystopian imaginaries in East African fiction in the context of both spatial theory and cultural legal studies. Focusing on Kusadikika by Shabaan Robert (1951) and Wizard of the Crow by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (2006), my analysis meets the spatial turn in critical theory at the point where it has recently intersected with both law and African studies. At this nexus, we find, among other things, the figure of u…
African Oral Law and the Critique of Colonial Modernity in The Trial of Jomo Kenyatta
In his book The Trial of Jomo Kenyatta(1955), author Montagu Slater claims to offer a “fair” and “true” account of the Kenyan nationalist leader’s trial in a British colonial court. However, by including a mere fraction of the 2000+-page trial transcript, Slater amplifies certain aspects of the proceedings, including an instance of literal amplification: at one point, the judge considers whether or not an audio recording of one of Kenyatta’s publ…
Singing the Law
This paper reconsiders the poetry of Okot p'Bitek in light of both his formal education and the principles of traditional acholi law. Okot claims in Artist, the Ruler that traditional african poets actually create and proclaim law at a fundamental level in society. Okot himself, as a poet in the tra - ditional mode, can thus be understood as performing a similar function, particularly in his poems Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, which can be rea…
African Oral Law and the Critique of Colonial Modernity in The Trial of Jomo Kenyatta
In his book The Trial of Jomo Kenyatta(1955), author Montagu Slater claims to offer a “fair” and “true” account of the Kenyan nationalist leader’s trial in a British colonial court. However, by including a mere fraction of the 2000+-page trial transcript, Slater amplifies certain aspects of the proceedings, including an instance of literal amplification: at one point, the judge considers whether or not an audio recording of one of Kenyatta’s publ…
Singing the Law
This paper reconsiders the poetry of Okot p'Bitek in light of both his formal education and the principles of traditional acholi law. Okot claims in Artist, the Ruler that traditional african poets actually create and proclaim law at a fundamental level in society. Okot himself, as a poet in the tra - ditional mode, can thus be understood as performing a similar function, particularly in his poems Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, which can be rea…
Singing the Law
This paper reconsiders the poetry of Okot p'Bitek in light of both his formal education and the principles of traditional acholi law. Okot claims in Artist, the Ruler that traditional african poets actually create and proclaim law at a fundamental level in society. Okot himself, as a poet in the tra - ditional mode, can thus be understood as performing a similar function, particularly in his poems Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, which can be rea…
African Oral Law and the Critique of Colonial Modernity in The Trial of Jomo Kenyatta
In his book The Trial of Jomo Kenyatta(1955), author Montagu Slater claims to offer a “fair” and “true” account of the Kenyan nationalist leader’s trial in a British colonial court. However, by including a mere fraction of the 2000+-page trial transcript, Slater amplifies certain aspects of the proceedings, including an instance of literal amplification: at one point, the judge considers whether or not an audio recording of one of Kenyatta’s publ…
Law and Transnational Utopias in East African Fiction
This essay offers a reading of utopian and dystopian imaginaries in East African fiction in the context of both spatial theory and cultural legal studies. Focusing on Kusadikika by Shabaan Robert (1951) and Wizard of the Crow by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (2006), my analysis meets the spatial turn in critical theory at the point where it has recently intersected with both law and African studies. At this nexus, we find, among other things, the figure of u…
The Politics of Living Death in Nuruddin Farah's Sweet and Sour Milk
This article examines Nuruddin Farah's 1979 novel Sweet and Sour Milk, asking how we read representations of postcolonial mourning and living death in the context of global authoritarianism. The first novel in Farah's influential dictatorship trilogy, Sweet and Sour Milk introduces us to “the General,” a fictionalized version of Siyad Barre, who ruled Somalia from 1969 to 1991. Like Barre's, the General's power exemplifies what Achille Mbembe cal…
Aesthetics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (2 works) · Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works)