Aesthetic Impropriety - by Rose Casey (Hardcover)

About the Book

Shows how legal and literary innovations together reshape property law in the postcolonial world.

Book Synopsis

Shows how legal and literary innovations together reshape property law in the postcolonial world.

Review Quotes

As Casey points out, law is often viewed--for good reason--as repressive and dispossessive, murderous and genocidal, having authorized theft, piracy, enslavement, and resource extraction that continues to immiserate vulnerable groups around the world. By looking to an impressive array of examples from the arts and literature, Casey shows with elegant argumentation and lucidity how aesthetic objects can circulate discursively to gradually change structures of feeling and habits of mind, and lay the groundwork for actual changes to laws that open on to more egalitarian forms of living in the world.---Nicole Rizzuto, Georgetown University

Aesthetic Impropriety reconceives the aesthetic force of literature to theorize justice. Casey's gorgeous close readings and keen attention to the histories of English-derived property law generate new ways to reckon with collective dispossession.---Angela Naimou, Clemson University

About the Author

Rose Casey is Assistant Professor of English at West Virginia University.