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.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations.
LAW / General.
Juristic persons > Moral and ethical aspects.
Human rights in literature.
Citizenship in literature.
Law and literature.
Self in literature.
Caribbean literature > History and criticism.
American literature > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
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  • Contents
  • Introduction: Contemporary Literature and the Legal Person 1
  • Part I: Legal Debris
  • 1. The Free, the Slave, and the Disappeared: States and Sites of Exceptional Personhood in Francisco Goldman's The Ordinary Seaman 000
  • 2. Sugar's Legacies: Romance, Revolution, and Wageless Life in the Fiction of Edwidge Danticat and Rosario Ferre 000
  • Part II: Salvage Aesthetics
  • 3. Fugitive Personhood: Re-Imagining Sanctuary in Gayl Jones's Song For Anninho and Mosquito 000
  • 4. Masking Fanon 000
  • Epilogue: Personhood at Its Limits: The Animal, the Fetus, and the Stateless Person 000
  • Notes 000
  • Bibliography 000
  • Index 000.

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