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Informationen zum Autor Karla FC Holloway is James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University, where she also holds appointments in the Law School, Women's Studies, and African & African American Studies, and is an affiliated faculty with the Institute on Care at the End of Life and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine. She serves on the Greenwall Foundation's Advisory Board in Bioethics, and was recently elected to the Hastings Center Fellows Association. Holloway is the author of BookMarks: Reading in Black and White and Codes of Conduct: Race, Ethics, and the Color of Our Character, as well as Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics and Passed On: African American Mourning Stories: A Memorial, both published by Duke University Press. Klappentext Legal Fictions is a bold declaration that, in the U.S., the black body is thoroughly bound by law. It is an unflinchingly look at the implications of that claim and a virtuoso survey of the ways that black authors of literary fiction have engaged with the law's constructions of race since the era of slavery. Zusammenfassung Legal Fictions is a bold declaration that, in the U.S., the black body is thoroughly bound by law. It is an unflinchingly look at the implications of that claim and a virtuoso survey of the ways that black authors of literary fiction have engaged with the law's constructions of race since the era of slavery. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface ix Introduction: Bound by Law 1 Intimate Intersectionalities-Scalar Reflections 5 Public Fictions, Private Facts 9 Simile as Precedent 13 Property, Contract, and Evidentiary Values 17 1. The Claims of Property: On Being and Belonging 23 The Capital in Question 27 Imagined Liberalism 35 Mapping Racial Reason 41 Being in Place: Landscape, Never Inscape 49 2. Bodies as Evidence (of Things Not Seen) 55 Secondhand Tales and Hearsay 59 Black Legibility-Can I Get a Witness? 72 Trying to Read Me 77 3. Composing Contract 89 "A novel-like tenor" 93 Passing and Protection 96 A Secluded Colored Neighborhood 102 Epilogue. When and Where "All the Dark-Glass Boys" Enter 111 A Contagion of Madness 113 Notes 127 References 139 Acknowledgments 145 Index 147...
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Karla FC Holloway is James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University, where she also holds appointments in the Law School, Women's Studies, and African & African American Studies, and is an affiliated faculty with the Institute on Care at the End of Life and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine. She serves on the Greenwall Foundation's Advisory Board in Bioethics, and was recently elected to the Hastings Center Fellows Association. Holloway is the author of BookMarks: Reading in Black and White and Codes of Conduct: Race, Ethics, and the Color of Our Character, as well as Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics and Passed On: African American Mourning Stories: A Memorial, both published by Duke University Press.
