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Legal Fictions : Constituting Race, Composing Literature /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Holloway, Karla F. C., 1949- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Duke University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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