The Fugitive's Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession Tapa blanda - 2004 - 1st Edición
de Stephen M. Best
Descripción de contraportada
In this study of literature and law before and since the Civil War, Stephen M. Best shows how American conceptions of slavery, property, and the idea of the fugitive were profoundly interconnected. The Fugitive's Properties uncovers a poetics of intangible, personified property emerging out of antebellum laws, circulating through key nineteenth-century works of literature, and informing cultural forms such as blackface minstrelsy and early race films. Best also argues that legal principles dealing with fugitives and indebted persons provided a sophisticated precursor to intellectual property law as it dealt with rights in appearance, expression, and other abstract aspects of personhood. In this conception of property as fleeting, indeed fugitive, American law preserved for much of the rest of the century slavery's most pressing legal imperative: the production of personhood as a market commodity. By revealing the paradoxes of this relationship between fugitive slave law and intellectual property law, Best helps us to understand how race achieved much of its force in the American cultural imagination. A work of ambitious scope and compelling cross-connections, The Fugitive's Properties sets new agendas for scholars of American literature and legal culture.
Detalles
- Título The Fugitive's Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession
- Autor Stephen M. Best
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Número de edición 1st
- Edición 1
- Páginas 376
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial University of Chicago Press, Chicago
- Fecha de publicación 2004-04
- Ilustrado Sí
- ISBN 9780226044347 / 0226044343
- Peso 1.1 libras (0.50 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.04 x 5.84 x 0.83 pulgadas (22.96 x 14.83 x 2.11 cm)
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Temas
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects African Americans in literature, Race in literature
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2003016071
- Dewey Decimal Code 810.935
Reseñas en medios
Citas
- Choice, 11/01/2004, Page 480
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