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  • On the possibility of legal form in Mieville's speculative fictions

    Author(s)
    Hourigan, Daniel
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Hourigan, Daniel P.
    Year published
    2018
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    Abstract
    This article explores the nexus of the legal and the literary in the works of China Miéville. Miéville's acclaim and popularity among the genre fiction communities often overlooks his political commitment to a Marxist view of law. At the same time, literary criticism of Miéville's fiction tends to flatten this Marxist politik by ignoring its historical indebtedness to Pashukanian and Trotskyist lines of thought in Miéville's critical and creative works. This article responds to both these vectors by asserting that there is a significant and hitherto unexplored difference in the frame of possibilities to imagine law in the ...
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    This article explores the nexus of the legal and the literary in the works of China Miéville. Miéville's acclaim and popularity among the genre fiction communities often overlooks his political commitment to a Marxist view of law. At the same time, literary criticism of Miéville's fiction tends to flatten this Marxist politik by ignoring its historical indebtedness to Pashukanian and Trotskyist lines of thought in Miéville's critical and creative works. This article responds to both these vectors by asserting that there is a significant and hitherto unexplored difference in the frame of possibilities to imagine law in the Weird speculative fictions that Miéville composes.
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    Journal Title
    Law and Literature
    Volume
    30
    Issue
    2
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/1535685X.2017.1370800
    Subject
    Other law and legal studies
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/384906
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