Salvage Work : U. S. and Caribbean Literatures amid the Debris of Legal Personhood
A study of post-1980 US and Caribbean literary responses to legal personhood. Analyzes literature by Francisco Goldman, Edwidge Danticat, Rosario Ferré, Gayl Jones, and John Edgar Wideman, which depict the legal slave as a generative legal category for labor, immigration, and human rights issues int...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Temple University Press,
2015
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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