Salvage work: US and Caribbean literatures amid the debris of legal personhood

"Salvage Work examines contemporary literary responses to the law's construction of personhood in the Americas. Tracking the extraordinary afterlives of the legal slave personality from the nineteenth century into the twenty-first, Angela Naimou shows the legal slave to be a fractured but...

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1. Verfasser: Naimou, Angela (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Fordham Univ. Press 2015
Ausgabe:1. ed.
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Zusammenfassung:"Salvage Work examines contemporary literary responses to the law's construction of personhood in the Americas. Tracking the extraordinary afterlives of the legal slave personality from the nineteenth century into the twenty-first, Angela Naimou shows the legal slave to be a fractured but generative figure for contemporary legal personhood across categories of race, citizenship, gender, and labor. What emerges is a compelling and original study of how law invents categories of identification and how literature contends with the person as a legal fiction.
Beschreibung:Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XI, 291 S. 24 cm
ISBN:9780823264766
9780823278725

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