Thadious M Davis

Games of Property

Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner's Go Down, Moses

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Produktbeschreibung

"From the opening lines, we are in the presence of an original and powerful voice that expands the boundaries of the field of 'law and literature' and offers a fresh way of understanding one of William Faulkner's most elliptical texts."--Linda K. Kerber, May Brodbeck Professor of History, University of Iowa

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9780822331391
• ISBN-10: 082233139X
• Artikelnr.: 22142977

Autorenporträt

Thadious M. Davis is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman’s Life Unveiled and Faulkner’s “Negro”: Art and the Southern Context. She is the coeditor of Satire or Evasion?: Black Perspectives on Huckleberry Finn, published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations viii
Acknowledgments x
Introduction: The Game of Genre 1
1. The Game of Challenge
> 2. The Object of Property 77
3. The Game of Boundaries
> 4. The Subject of Property 174
5. Conclusion: The Game of Compensation 223
Notes 263
Bibliography 309
Index 330