Legal Fictions : Constituting Race, Composing Literature.

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In Legal Fictions, Karla FC Holloway both argues that U.S. racial identity is the creation of U.S. law and demonstrates how black authors of literary fiction have engaged with the law's constructions of race since the era of slavery. Exploring the resonance between U.S. literature and U.S. juri...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Holloway, Karla FC
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Duke University Press, 2013.
Temas:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > History.
Race discrimination > Law and legislation > United States > History.
Race in literature.
Race dans la littérature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
LAW / General
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc.
American literature > African American authors
Race discrimination > Law and legislation
Race in literature
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In Legal Fictions, Karla FC Holloway both argues that U.S. racial identity is the creation of U.S. law and demonstrates how black authors of literary fiction have engaged with the law's constructions of race since the era of slavery. Exploring the resonance between U.S. literature and U.S. jurisprudence, Holloway reveals Toni Morrison's Beloved and Charles Johnson's Middle Passage as stories about personhood and property, David Bradley's The Chaneysville Incident and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man as structured by evidence law, and Nella Larsen's Passing as intimately related to contract law. H.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
ISBN:1306329469
9781306329460
9780822377054
0822377055

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