Title: Legal Fictions: Constituting Race, Composing Literature
Description: "In Legal Fictions, Karla FC Holloway both argues that U.S. racial identity is the creation of U.S. law and demonstrates how black authors of literary fiction have engaged with the law's constructions of race since the era of slavery. Exploring the resonance between U.S. literature and U.S. jurisprudence, Holloway reveals Toni Morrison's Beloved and Charles Johnson's Middle Passage as stories about personhood and property, David Bradley's The Chaneysville Incident and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man as structured by evidence law, and Nella Larsen's Passing as intimately related to contract law."--Publisher description.
Subjects: American literature, African American authors, History and criticism, African Americans, Legal status, laws, History, Race discrimination, Law and legislation, Race in literature, American literature, african american authors, history and criticism, African americans, legal status, laws, etc., Rassendiskriminierung, Schwarze, Literatur, Ethnische Identität, Gesetzgebung