{"product_id":"legal-fictions-9780822355816","title":"Legal Fictions","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLegal Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Holloway has written a sterling account of the convergence of literary and legal narratives in constructing American racial identities . . . This book will engage scholars in African American studies and American studies in the coming years.\"  -- D. E. Magill * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e“Holloway's writing is elegantly structured and multifaceted; the analytical language she uses is bright with imagery.” -- Jo Manby * Ethnicity and Race in a Changing World *\u003cbr\u003e“Karla FC Holloway’s most recent book is a remarkable creative and critical work that pushes the boundaries of interdisciplinarity in law, literature, history, and critical race theory. … Holloway uses the marginality of black literature as an argument for its central role in the legal and literary construction of nation and nationality. Finding the margins at the center and the center in the margins is precisely the kind of appealing paradox that makes this book so powerful.” -- Dan Farbman * Law, Culture, and the Humanities *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Bound by Law 1\u003cbr\u003e Intimate Intersectionalities—Scalar Reflections 5\u003cbr\u003e Public Fictions, Private Facts 9\u003cbr\u003e Simile as Precedent 13\u003cbr\u003e Property, Contract, and Evidentiary Values 17\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Claims of Property: On Being and Belonging 23\u003cbr\u003e The Capital in Question 27\u003cbr\u003e Imagined Liberalism 35\u003cbr\u003e Mapping Racial Reason 41\u003cbr\u003e Being in Place: Landscape, Never Inscape 49\u003cbr\u003e 2. Bodies as Evidence (of Things Not Seen) 55\u003cbr\u003e Secondhand Tales and Hearsay 59\u003cbr\u003e Black Legibility—Can I Get a Witness? 72\u003cbr\u003e Trying to Read Me 77\u003cbr\u003e 3. Composing Contract 89\u003cbr\u003e \"A novel-like tenor\" 93\u003cbr\u003e Passing and Protection 96\u003cbr\u003e A Secluded Colored Neighborhood 102\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. When and Where \"All the Dark-Glass Boys\" Enter 111\u003cbr\u003e A Contagion of Madness 113\u003cbr\u003e Notes 127\u003cbr\u003e References 139\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments 145\u003cbr\u003e Index 147","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406078779735,"sku":"9780822355816","price":84.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822355816.jpg?v=1730494453","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/legal-fictions-9780822355816","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}