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Author:

King, Lovalerie

Title:

Race, theft, and ethics : property matters in African American literature / Lovalerie King.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

x, 187 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Property in literature
Theft in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Law in literature
Ethics in literature
Race discrimination in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-182) and index.

Contents:

Race, property, and ethics: the historical and legal equation -- The ethics of living slavery and Jim Crow -- Theft and love in two neo-freedom narratives: Toni Morrison's Beloved and Charles Johnson's Middle passage -- Miscegenation, disinheritance, and the ethics of passing -- In quest of the elusive American dream.

Series:

Southern literary studies

ISBN:

0807132578 (alk. paper)
9780807132579 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)76828832

LCCN:

2006039016

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)