Legal Fictions
Constituting Race, Composing Literature
Karla FC Holloway
Discover how black authors of literary fiction have engaged with the law’s constructions of race since slavery in Legal Fictions by Karla FC Holloway. Holloway’s masterful interpretations reveal the resonance between U.S. literature and U.S. jurisprudence, shedding new light on fundamental questions about racial identity, personhood, and the law in works by Toni Morrison, Charles Johnson, David Bradley, Ralph Ellison, and Nella Larsen. A bold declaration that the black body is thoroughly bound by law and an unflinching look at the implications of that claim.
Publish Date
2014-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
2014-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
first published in 2013
Goodreads Rating
4
ISBN
9780822355953
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