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- Title: Iron Law and Colonial Desire: Legality and Criminality in Paton's Too Late the Phalarope
- Author : Journal of Literary Studies
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 98 KB
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Summary Too Late the Phalarope [1955]1971 provides an occasion to reflect on the relationship between colonialism, law and criminality. I argue that Paton indicts Afrikaner Christian nationalism by dramatising a paradox inherent in it. Afrikaner nationalism's uncompromisingly strict legality--both the normativity that regulates the behaviour of members of the Afrikaner community, and the strict enforcement of these norms--renders its members vulnerable to that which the community disavows and criminalises in the Immorality Act: the libidinal attraction to the Other manufactured by colonialism's "desiring machine". Moreover, by producing the conditions under which the "colonial desire" of the colonised--the desire for continued survival--cannot lawfully be fulfilled, colonial law is responsible for the criminality of the colonised.