Race, theft, and ethics [electronic resource] : property matters in African American literature / Lovalerie King.
By: King, Lovalerie.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
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BookSeries: Southern literary studies: Publisher: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2007Description: x, 187 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism | Property in literature | Theft in literature | African Americans in literature | Law in literature | Ethics in literature | Race discrimination in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/355 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-182) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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