{"product_id":"legal-fictions-constituting-race-composing-literature-paperback","title":"Legal Fictions: Constituting Race, Composing Literature - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKarla Fc Holloway\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLegal Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eBeloved\u003c\/i\u003e and Charles Johnson's \u003ci\u003eMiddle Passage\u003c\/i\u003e as stories about personhood and property, David Bradley's \u003ci\u003eThe Chaneysville Incident\u003c\/i\u003e and Ralph Ellison's \u003ci\u003eInvisible Man\u003c\/i\u003e as structured by evidence law, and Nella Larsen's \u003ci\u003ePassing\u003c\/i\u003e as intimately related to contract law. Holloway engages the intentional, contradictory, and capricious constructions of race embedded in the law with the same energy that she brings to her masterful interpretations of fiction by U.S. writers. Her readings shed new light on the many ways that black U.S. authors have reframed fundamental questions about racial identity, personhood, and the law from the nineteenth into the twenty-first centuries. \u003ci\u003eLegal Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e is a bold declaration that the black body is thoroughly bound by law and an unflinching look at the implications of that claim.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKarla 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 \u0026amp; 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 \u0026amp; 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 \u003ci\u003eBookMarks: Reading in Black and White\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCodes of Conduct: Race, Ethics, and the Color of Our Character\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as \u003ci\u003ePrivate Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePassed On: African American Mourning Stories: A Memorial\u003c\/i\u003e, both published by Duke University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52697335693619,"sku":"9780822355953","price":55.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/TGVPcG5UM0hrelVrWFFEdE95Sk9OQT09.webp?v=1763132289","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/legal-fictions-constituting-race-composing-literature-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}