Graduation Year
Spring 2014
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Department
English
Second Department
Legal Studies
Reader 1
John Peavoy
Reader 2
Mark Golub
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© 2014 Ishmam R. Rahman
Abstract
Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird is an iconic classic that inspired many street lawyer novels. Examining John Grisham’s A Time To Kill as a low-culture-imprint of Lee’s novel, the thesis analyzes the convergent and divergent points of rhetorical devices that promote colour-blind liberalism across the two texts seeing as they are published 30 years apart. Both pieces of legal fiction act as a reflection and critique of formal legal institutions and through this reflection, the thesis deals with how the texts reinforce, perpetuate and resist the white dominant ideology through the “progressive” race politics of colorblind liberalism.
Recommended Citation
Rahman, Ishmam R., "Colorblind Liberalism in Legal Storytelling: To Kill A Mockingbird and A Time To Kill" (2014). Scripps Senior Theses. 501.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/501
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
