Salvage Work : U.S. and Caribbean Literatures amid the Debris of Legal Personhood /

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"Salvage Work examines contemporary literary responses to the law's construction of personhood in the Americas. Tracking the extraordinary afterlives of the legal slave personality from the nineteenth century into the twenty-first, Angela Naimou shows the legal slave to be a fractured but...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Naimou, Angela (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Edición:First edition.
Temas:
American literature > History and criticism.
Caribbean literature > History and criticism.
Self in literature.
Law and literature.
Citizenship in literature.
Human rights in literature.
Juristic persons > Moral and ethical aspects.
Littérature antillaise > Histoire et critique.
Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
Droit et littérature.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) dans la littérature.
Personnes morales > Aspect moral.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature.
Caribbean literature.
Citizenship.
Francisco Goldman.
Gayl Jones.
Law and Literature.
Legal Personhood.
Postcolonial Ethnic Studies.
Rosario Ferré.
human rights.
neoliberalism.
race.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Contemporary Literature and the Legal Person
  • 1. The Free, the Slave, and the Disappeared: States and Sites of Exceptional Personhood in Francisco Goldman's The Ordinary Seaman
  • 2. Sugar's Legacies: Romance, Revolution, and Wageless Life in the Fiction of Edwidge Danticat and Rosario Ferré
  • 3. Fugitive Personhood: Reimagining Sanctuary in Gayl Jones's Song for Anninho and Mosquito
  • 4. Masking Fanon
  • Epilogue: The Ends of Legal Personhood
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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