Stories That Make the Law Free: Literature as a Bridge Between the Law and the Culture in Which It Must Exist

Authors

Christine Metteer Lorillard

Publication Date

10-1-2005

Document Type

Symposium

Abstract

In this paper, I will examine how literature, by telling stories and examining their meaning, allows us to make the law free, by seeing it in its cultural context. I take, as a specific example Barbara Kingsolver's novel, Pigs in Heaven, as it explores the cultural dialectic underlying application of the Indian Child Welfare Act.

DOI

10.37419/TWLR.V12.I1.11

First Page

251

Last Page

270

Recommended Citation

Christine M. Lorillard, Stories That Make the Law Free: Literature as a Bridge Between the Law and the Culture in Which It Must Exist, 12 Tex. Wesleyan L. Rev. 251 (2005).
Available at: https://doi.org/10.37419/TWLR.V12.I1.11