Race, Theft, and Ethics
Subtitle: Property Matters in African American Literature (Southern Literary Studies)
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: December 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9780807132579
Subjects: American - African American; American - African American & Black; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; African American authors; American literature; History and criticism; Property in literature; Theft in literature
Description: "Race, Theft, and Ethics shows how African American literature deals with the racialized history of unequal economic opportunity in highly complex and nuanced ways, and illustrates that, for many authors, an essential aspect of their work involved contemplating the tensions between a given code of ethics and a moral course of action. A deft combination of history, literature, law, and economics, King's groundbreaking work highlights the pervasiveness of the property/race/ethics dynamic in the interfaces of African American lives with American law."--BOOK JACKET.