Davis Games of Property

Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner's Go Down, Moses
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8445-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

Using Faulkner's Go Down Moses as a point of departure, this book explores the conflicting nature of property relations that have slavery in the U.S. at their base and have affected the conceptualizations of rights and representations of African A

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davis, Thadious M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations viii

Acknowledgments x

Introduction: The Game of Genre 1

1. The Game of Challenge
43

2. The Object of Property 77

3. The Game of Boundaries
119

4. The Subject of Property 174

5. Conclusion: The Game of Compensation 223

Notes 263

Bibliography 309

Index 330

Über Autor(innen)

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.