Games of Property
Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner's Go Down, Moses
1st Edition
Published on 7. July 2003
352 pages
978-0-8223-8445-8 (ISBN)
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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
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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.
Content
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
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
