Legal Fictions: Constituting Race, Composing Literature

Legal Fictions: Constituting Race, Composing Literature

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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.