See Justice Done: The Problem of Law in the African American Literary Tradition

by Christopher Michael Brown

In See Justice Done: The Problem of Law in the African American Literary Tradition, author Christopher Michael Brown argues that African American literature has profound and deliberate legal roots. Tracing this throughline from the eighteenth century to the present, Brown demonstrates that engaging with legal culture in its many forms--including its conventions, paradoxes, and contradictions--is paramount to understanding Black writing.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496848195
• ISBN13: 9781496848192
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"