Karla Fc Holloway

Legal Fictions

Constituting Race, Composing Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

Legal Fictions is a bold declaration that, in the U.S., the black body is thoroughly bound by law. It is an unflinchingly look at the implications of that claim and a virtuoso survey of the ways that black authors of literary fiction have engaged with the law's constructions of race since the era of slavery.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780822355816
• ISBN-10: 0822355817
• Artikelnr.: 39601394

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