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The regulations of robbers : legal fictions of slavery and resistance / Christina Accomando.
Van Pelt Library PS366.A35 A28 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Accomando, Christina.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American prose literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American prose literature.
- American prose literature--African American authors.
- American prose literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- American prose literature--Women authors.
- American prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- Feminism and literature--United States--History--19th century.
- Feminism and literature.
- Enslaved persons' writings, American.
- United States.
- History.
- Enslaved persons--United States--Biography--History and criticism.
- Enslaved persons.
- Biography.
- African American women--Biography--History and criticism.
- African American women.
- African American women--Biography.
- African Americans--Biography--History and criticism.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Biography.
- Enslaved persons' writings, American--History and criticism.
- Autobiography--African American authors.
- Autobiography.
- Slavery in literature.
- Law and literature.
- Race in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 257 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2001]
- Contents:
- Legal fictions of slavery and resistance
- "Further deponent sayeth not": multiple consciousness and suppressed narratives in tellings of slave revolt
- "I want it root and branch destroyed": the radical politics and shifting voices of Sojourner Truth. A woman among the pettifoggers: truth as legal actor
- Framing truth and resisting frames
- The regulations of robbers: Harriet Jacobs's legal critique. "We could have told them a different story": slave law and slave voices
- Reframing legal fictions of womanhood
- Epilogue. Confronting the legacies: decoding modern rhetorics of race.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-249) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0814208835
- 0814250815
- OCLC:
- 47045257
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