Legal Fictions

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.