Salvage work : U.S. and Caribbean literatures amid the debris of legal personhood /

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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Main Author:	Naimou, Angela (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	American literature > History and criticism. Caribbean literature > History and criticism. Self in literature. Law and literature. Citizenship in literature. Human rights in literature. Juristic persons > Moral and ethical aspects. LAW / General. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.