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  • Breach! The Law's Jouissance in Miéville's The City & The City

    Author(s)
    Hourigan, D
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Hourigan, Daniel P.
    Year published
    2013
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    Abstract
    This article critically examines the construction of law in China Mi鶩lle's weird detective narrative The City & The City (2009). The discussion charts the excesses of law's embodiment in Detective Tyador Borl꠯f the Besz䥬 policzai with and against the primordial natural law discourse of the Law of Breach, and carefully examines the ways that this Law interdicts the common law in both parts of the fictional split city Besz䥬-Ul Qoma. Using the psychoanalytic concept of jouissance, this article unveils some of the modulations of authority presented by the novel's unusual arrangement of politics, common law, and natural law.This article critically examines the construction of law in China Mi鶩lle's weird detective narrative The City & The City (2009). The discussion charts the excesses of law's embodiment in Detective Tyador Borl꠯f the Besz䥬 policzai with and against the primordial natural law discourse of the Law of Breach, and carefully examines the ways that this Law interdicts the common law in both parts of the fictional split city Besz䥬-Ul Qoma. Using the psychoanalytic concept of jouissance, this article unveils some of the modulations of authority presented by the novel's unusual arrangement of politics, common law, and natural law.
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    Journal Title
    Law, Culture and the Humanities
    Volume
    9
    Issue
    1
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1177/1743872111404849
    Subject
    Law not elsewhere classified
    Law
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/45406
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