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Author:

Accomando, Christina.

Title:

The regulations of robbers : legal fictions of slavery and resistance / Christina Accomando.

Publisher:

Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

xii, 257 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American prose literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American prose literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Feminism and literature--United States--History--19th century.
Slaves--United States--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
African American women--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
African Americans--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Slaves' writings, American--History and criticism.
Autobiography--African American authors.
Slavery in literature.
Law and literature.
Race in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-249) and index.

Contents:

Legal fictions of slavery and resistance -- "Further deponent sayeth not": multiple consciousness and suppressed narratives in tellings of slave revolt -- "I want it root and branch destroyed": the radical politics and shifting voices of Sojourner Truth. A woman among the pettifoggers: truth as legal actor -- Framing truth and resisting frames -- The regulations of robbers: Harriet Jacobs's legal critique. "We could have told them a different story": slave law and slave voices -- Reframing legal fictions of womanhood -- Epilogue. Confronting the legacies: decoding modern rhetorics of race.

ISBN:

9780814250815 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0814250815 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780814208830 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814208835 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)47045257

LCCN:

2001002939

Locations:

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

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)