Race, theft, and ethics
Subtitle: property matters in African American literature
By: Lovalerie King.
Series: Southern literary studies
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780807132579
Subjects: American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism; Property in literature; Theft in literature; African Americans in literature; Law in literature; Ethics in literature; Race discrimination in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Race, property, and ethics: the historical and legal equation; title: The ethics of living slavery and Jim Crow; title: Theft and love in two neo freedom narratives: Toni Morrison's Beloved and Charles Johnson's Middle passage; title: Miscegenation, disinheritance, and the ethics of passing; title: In quest of the elusive American dream.