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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New York, NY :
Fordham University Press,
[2015]
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