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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Naimou, Angela (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Self in literature.
Law and literature.
Juristic persons > Moral and ethical aspects.
Human rights in literature.
Citizenship in literature.
Caribbean literature.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Personnes morales > Aspect moral.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) dans la litterature.
Droit et litterature.
Moi (Psychologie) dans la litterature.
Litterature antillaise > Histoire et critique.
Caribbean literature > History and criticism.
American literature > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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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