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Jon-Christian Suggs - Whispered Consolations: Law and Narrative in African American Life (Law, Meaning, and Violence) - 9780472106516 - V9780472106516
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Whispered Consolations: Law and Narrative in African American Life (Law, Meaning, and Violence)

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Description for Whispered Consolations: Law and Narrative in African American Life (Law, Meaning, and Violence) Hardcover. Explores the relationship between African American literature and American law Series: Law, Meaning & Violence. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 162 x 35. Weight in Grams: 720.

African Americans have experienced life under the rule of law in quite different contexts from those of whites, and they have written about those differences in poems, songs, stories, autobiographies, novels, and memoirs. This book examines the tradition of American law as it appears in African American literary life, from pre-Revolutionary murder trials to gangsta rap. The experience, and the critique it produces, changes our pictures of both American law and African American literature.
This study reads the already canonical works of nineteenth- and twentieth-century black literature in the context of their responses to and critiques of American legal history. ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Series
Law, Meaning & Violence
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472106516
SKU
V9780472106516
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About Jon-Christian Suggs
Jon-Christian Suggs is Professor of English, John Jay College, City University of New York.

Reviews for Whispered Consolations: Law and Narrative in African American Life (Law, Meaning, and Violence)
"Suggs offers insightful readings that demonstrate the legal context of the examined texts and provides ample proof that legal status was a central concern of African American literature during this period. . . . Suggs successfully illuminates the legal context of much African American fiction." —Richard Schur "Whispered Consolations, an ambitiously researched work, posits provocative possibilities for literary scholarship ... Read more

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