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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface; Introduction: Bound by Law; Intimate Intersectionalities-Scalar Recollections; Public Fictions, Private Facts; Simile as Precedent; Property, Contract, and Evidentiary Values; One: The Claims of Property: On Being and Belonging; The Capital in Question; Imagined Liberalism; Mapping Racial Reason; Being in Place: Landscape, Never Inscape; Two: Bodies as Evidence (of Things Not Seen); Secondhand Tales and Hearsay; Black Legibility-Can I Get a Witness?; Trying to Read Me; Three: Composing Contract; "A novel-like tenor"; Passing and Protection; A Secluded Colored Neighborhood.
  • Epilogue: When and Where "All the Dark-Glass Boys" EnterA Contagion of Madness; Notes; References; Acknowledgments; Index.

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