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Race, theft, and ethics : property matters in African American literature
- Title
- Race, theft, and ethics : property matters in African American literature / Lovalerie King.
- Author
- King, Lovalerie.
- Publication
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2007], ©2007.
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- Description
- x, 187 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Race, Theft, and Ethics shows how African American literature deals with the racialized history of unequal economic opportunity in highly complex and nuanced ways, and illustrates that, for many authors, an essential aspect of their work involved contemplating the tensions between a given code of ethics and a moral course of action. A deft combination of history, literature, law, and economics, King's groundbreaking work highlights the pervasiveness of the property/race/ethics dynamic in the interfaces of African American lives with American law."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Southern literary studies
- Uniform Title
- Southern literary studies.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-182) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Race, Property, and Ethics: The Historical and Legal Equation -- 2. The Ethics of Living Slavery and Jim Crow -- 3. Theft and Love in Two Neo-Freedom Narratives: Toni Morrison's Beloved and Charles Johnson's Middle Passage -- 4. Miscegenation, Disinheritance, and the Ethics of Passing -- 5. In Quest of the Elusive American Dream.
- ISBN
- 9780807132579 (alk. paper)
- 0807132578 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006039016
- 40014995220
- OCLC
- 76828832
- ocm76828832
- SCSB-5384132
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries