Jeanne-Marie Jackson
Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University and Director of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, author of The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa (Princeton UP, 2026).
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Mar 31, 2026 • 1h 10min
Jeanne-Marie Jackson, "The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jeanne-Marie Jackson, Professor of English at Johns Hopkins and director of a humanities institute, explores J. E. Casely Hayford’s legal-literary imagination. She traces his formation in the Gold Coast and Britain. Short, vivid discussions cover his institutions, public persona, textual vs oral traditions, law as literary practice, and how close reading functioned as legislative power.
