Karla Fc Holloway

Legal Fictions

Constituting Race, Composing Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

Karla FC Holloway is James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University, where she also holds appointments in the Law School, Women's Studies, and African & African American Studies, and is an affiliated faculty with the Institute on Care at the End of Life and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine. She serves on the Greenwall Foundation's Advisory Board in Bioethics, and was recently elected to the Hastings Center Fellows Association. Holloway is the author of BookMarks: Reading in Black and White and Codes of Conduct: Race, Ethics, and the Color of Our Character, as well as Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics and Passed On: African American Mourning Stories: A Memorial, both published by Duke University Press.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9780822355953
• ISBN-10: 0822355957
• Artikelnr.: 39597591

Autorenporträt

Karla FC Holloway

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
Introduction: Bound by Law 1
Intimate Intersectionalities-Scalar Reflections 5
Public Fictions, Private Facts 9
Simile as Precedent 13
Property, Contract, and Evidentiary Values 17
1. The Claims of Property: On Being and Belonging 23
The Capital in Question 27
Imagined Liberalism 35
Mapping Racial Reason 41
Being in Place: Landscape, Never Inscape 49
2. Bodies as Evidence (of Things Not Seen) 55
Secondhand Tales and Hearsay 59
Black Legibility-Can I Get a Witness? 72
Trying to Read Me 77
3. Composing Contract 89
"A novel-like tenor" 93
Passing and Protection 96
A Secluded Colored Neighborhood 102
Epilogue. When and Where "All the Dark-Glass Boys" Enter 111
A Contagion of Madness 113
Notes 127
References 139
Acknowledgments 145
Index 147