{"product_id":"9780822377054","title":"TEST1 Legal Fictions: Constituting Race, Composing Literature","description":"In \u003ci\u003eLegal Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e, Karla FC Holloway both argues that U.S. racial identity is the creation of U.S. law and demonstrates how black authors of literary fiction have engaged with the law's constructions of race since the era of slavery. Exploring the resonance between U.S. literature and U.S. jurisprudence, Holloway reveals Toni Morrison's \u003ci\u003eBeloved\u003c\/i\u003e and Charles Johnson's \u003ci\u003eMiddle Passage\u003c\/i\u003e as stories about personhood and property, David Bradley's \u003ci\u003eThe Chaneysville Incident\u003c\/i\u003e and Ralph Ellison's \u003ci\u003eInvisible Man\u003c\/i\u003e as structured by evidence law, and Nella Larsen's \u003ci\u003ePassing\u003c\/i\u003e as intimately related to contract law. Holloway engages the intentional, contradictory, and capricious constructions of race embedded in the law with the same energy that she brings to her masterful interpretations of fiction by U.S. writers. Her readings shed new light on the many ways that black U.S. authors have reframed fundamental questions about racial identity, personhood, and the law from the nineteenth into the twenty-first centuries. \u003ci\u003eLegal Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e is a bold declaration that the black body is thoroughly bound by law and an unflinching look at the implications of that claim.","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069948150000,"sku":"9780822377054","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780822377054_p0.jpg?v=1763752952","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780822377054","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}