{"product_id":"games-of-property-law-race-gender-and-faulkners-go-down-moses-9780822331391","title":"Games of Property  Law Race Gender and Faulkners Go Down Moses","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProvides 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Every now and then, a book comes along that takes us utterly by surprise, reconfiguring old geographies of criticism with originality, power, and brilliance. Thadious M. Davis has produced just such a book. We (and William Faulkner!) are blessed by her attention to race, property, agency, game theory, and critical legal studies. Yoknapatawpha and its creator find radically new use value for a new millennium in Davis’s labors, and we are all gifted with beautifully written scholarship, and an indispensable pedagogical meditation. Davis’s ‘Book of Moses’ is must reading.”—Houston A. Baker, Jr., author of \u003ci\u003eTurning South Again: Re-thinking Modernism\/Re-reading Booker T.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e”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\u003cbr\u003e”It may sound hyperbolic to claim that nothing like this exists in Faulkner scholarship, but that’s my claim. \u003ci\u003eGames of Property\u003c\/i\u003e contributes to a new understanding of not only \u003ci\u003eGo Down, Moses\u003c\/i\u003e, but of much of Faulkner’s work.”—Linda Wagner-Martin, Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations viii\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments x\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Game of Genre 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Game of Challenge\u003cbr\u003e 43\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Object of Property 77\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Game of Boundaries\u003cbr\u003e 119\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Subject of Property 174\u003cbr\u003e 5. Conclusion: The Game of Compensation 223\u003cbr\u003e Notes 263\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 309\u003cbr\u003e Index 330","brand":"MD - Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53515504714071,"sku":"9780822331391","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/games-of-property-law-race-gender-and-faulkners-go-down-moses-9780822331391","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}