Karla FC Holloway, Legal Fictions: Constituting Race, Composing Literature.

Legal Fictions: Constituting Race, Composing Literature is an intriguing addition to Karla Holloway’s distinguished body of work in African-American Studies. While Holloway’s classic Moorings and Metaphors (1992) demonstrated her firm grasp of an extensive array of critical vocabularies from lingui...

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Publicado en:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ejas,
Autor Principal: Monot, Pierre-Héli
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Publicado: European journal of American studies 2022
Acceso en liña:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Résumé:Legal Fictions: Constituting Race, Composing Literature is an intriguing addition to Karla Holloway’s distinguished body of work in African-American Studies. While Holloway’s classic Moorings and Metaphors (1992) demonstrated her firm grasp of an extensive array of critical vocabularies from linguistics to mythography, Legal Fictions focuses more closely on the interconnection of U.S. law, the construction of racial identities, and African-American literature, thereby contributing an approvi...