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 is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman’s Life Unveiled and Faulkner’s “Negro”: Art and the Southern Context. She is the coeditor of Satire or Evasion?: Black Perspectives on Huckleberry Finn, published by Duke University Press.

Product details

• Authors: Thadious M Davis, Thadious M. Davis
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.07.2003
• EAN: 9780822331391
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3139-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 233 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 481 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies