Legal Fictions: Constituting Race, Composing Literature

Author/Contributor(s):	Holloway, Karla Fc
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	01/01/2014
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.