Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction: Literature, Imagination and the State of Exception 1
5. 1 ‘Natural Justice, Equity and Good Conscience’: History, Politics and Law in Nigeria, 1900–1966 12
6. 2 ‘I Am the Law’: District Commissioner Fiction and the State of Exception 26
7. 3 ‘Seeking a Legal Form’: Joyce Cary’s Mister Johnson 54
8. 4 ‘Beast of No Nation’: Bribery, Corruption and Late Colonial Administration in No Longer at Ease 85
9. 5 ‘Written in the Interest of the People’: Representing the Law in Cyprian Ekwensi and Market Literature 107
10. 6 ‘Sensational Coverage of a Sensational Trial’: Treason, Journalism and the State 130
11. 7 Violence and the Law in A Man of the People 157
12. Conclusion: Imagined States 181
13. Bibliography 195
14. Index 201