Waiting before the law: Kafka on the border

Social and Legal Studies

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 285-297

  van Houtum, Henk ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

before the Law; Bordering; Kafka; Ordering; Othering; paranoid desire; schizoid desire

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956211805     PISSN: 09646639     EISSN: 14617390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0964663910372180     Document Type: Article

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