Holloway Legal Fictions

Constituting Race, Composing Literature
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7705-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 176 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holloway, Karla FC

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.