Games of Property - Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner's Go Down, Moses

"From the opening lines, we are in the presence of an original and powerful voice that expands the boundaries of the field of 'law and literature' and offers a fresh way of understanding one of William Faulkner's most elliptical texts."--Linda K. Kerber, May Brodbeck Professor of History, University of Iowa

List of contents

Illustrations viii

Acknowledgments x

Introduction: The Game of Genre 1

1. The Game of Challenge
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2. The Object of Property 77

3. The Game of Boundaries
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4. The Subject of Property 174

5. Conclusion: The Game of Compensation 223

Notes 263

Bibliography 309

Index 330

About the author

Thadious M. Davis

Summary

Provides a set of readings of William Faulkner's Go Down, Moses - sometimes characterized as a novel, sometimes as a collection of stories-that offers a deep understanding of the interrelationship between the treatment of persons as property and the perception of laws, social forms, and rituals as games.

Product details

• Authors: Davis, Thadious M Davis, Thadious M. Davis, Thadious M. Davis
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.07.2003
• EAN: 9780822331032
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3103-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Weight: 635 g
• Illustrations: 21 illustrations
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Englisch