Legal Fictions: Constituting Race, Composing Literature

by Karla F.C. Holloway

Book Overview

In Legal Fictions , Karla FC Holloway both argues that U.S. racial identity is the creation of U.S. law and demonstrates how black authors of literary fiction have engaged with the law's constructions of race since the era of slavery. Exploring the resonance between U.S. literature and U.S. jurisprudence, Holloway reveals Toni Morrison's Beloved and Charles Johnson's Middle Passage as stories about personhood and property, David Bradley's The Chaneysville...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822355957
• ISBN13: 9780822355953
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 7.9"