“Literature, Law, and Rhetorical Performance in the Anticolonial Atlantic is a highly original and thoughtful contribution to Postcolonial Studies. In thinking through the significance of key juridical-rights documents, Gulick suggests a new history of ‘postcolonial’ literature as well as a new method of reading that fits with postcolonial theory’s deconstructionist past and points toward a future in which language and politics are more than interrelated. This is the kind of book that literary studies needs, one that claims that language and literature are central to understanding politics and the public, not ancillary or just reflective. It is of interest for those in Postcolonial Studies, Area Studies, Caribbean Studies, African Studies, Diaspora Studies, Political Theory, Human Rights Studies, and World Literature.” —Samantha Pinto, Georgetown University
“Literature, Law, and Rhetorical Performance in the Anticolonial Atlantic is an excellent contribution to a new wave of postcolonial analysis that is not bound by issues of genre, geography, or canonicity.” —Michael Malouf, author of Transatlantic Solitaries: Irish Nationalism and Caribbean Poetics