Breach! The law's jouissance in Mieville's The City and The City
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Article Title | Breach! The law's jouissance in Mieville's The City and The City |
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ERA Journal ID | 33569 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | |
Author | Hourigan, Daniel |
Journal Title | Law, Culture and the Humanities |
Journal Citation | 9 (1), pp. 156-168 |
Number of Pages | 13 |
Year | 2013 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications Ltd |
Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
ISSN | 1743-8721 |
1743-9752 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/1743872111404849 |
Web Address (URL) | http://lch.sagepub.com/content/9/1/156 |
Abstract | This article critically examines the construction of law in China Mieville's weird detective narrative The City & The City (2009). The discussion charts the excesses of law's embodiment in Detective Tyador Borlu of the Beszel 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 Beszel-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. |
Keywords | China Mieville; Jacques Lacan; Jouissance; law and culture; psychoanalytic philosophy; The City and The City |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 470530. Stylistics and textual analysis |
500320. Psychoanalytic philosophy | |
480499. Law in context not elsewhere classified | |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | Griffith University |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q2985/breach-the-law-s-jouissance-in-mieville-s-the-city-and-the-city
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