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Legal fictions : constituting race, composing literature / Karla FC Holloway.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holloway, Karla F. C., 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc--History.
- African Americans.
- Race discrimination--Law and legislation--United States--History.
- Race discrimination.
- Race in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (176 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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. jurisprudence, Holloway reveals Toni Morrison's Beloved and Charles Johnson's Middle Passage as stories about personhood and property, David Bradley's The Chaneysville Incident and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man as structured by evidence law, and Nella Larsen's Passing as intimately related to contract law. H
- Contents:
- The capital in question
- Imagined liberalism
- Mapping racial reason
- Being in place : landscape, never inscape
- Secondhand tales and hearsay
- Black legibility : "Can I get a witness"
- Trying to read me
- "A novel-like tenor"
- Passing and protection
- A secluded colored neighborhood.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822355953
- 0822355957
- 9780822377054
- 0822377055
- OCLC:
- 1139643961
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