Salvage Work : : U.S. and Caribbean Literatures amid the Debris of Legal Personhood / / Angela Naimou.
Salvage Work examines contemporary literary responses to the law's construction of personhood in the Americas. Tracking the extraordinary afterlives of the legal slave personality from the nineteenth century into the twenty-first, Angela Naimou shows the legal slave to be a fractured but genera...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Contemporary Literature and the Legal Person
- part one. Legal Debris
- 1. The Free, the Slave, and the Disappeared: States and Sites of Exceptional Personhood in Francisco Goldman's The Ordinary Seaman
- 2. Sugar's Legacies: Romance, Revolution, and Wageless Life in the Fiction of Edwidge Danticat and Rosario Ferré
- part two. Salvage Aesthetics
- 3. Fugitive Personhood: Reimagining Sanctuary in Gayl Jones's Song for Anninho and Mosquito
- 4. Masking Fanon
- Epilogue: The Ends of Legal Personhood
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index