Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner's Go Down, Moses

Thadious M. Davis

Published by Duke University Press 2003

Games of Property

Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner's Go Down, Moses

Thadious M. Davis

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822384458

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Using Faulkner's Go Down Moses as a point of departure, this book explores the conflicting nature of property relations that have slavery in the U.S. at their base and have affected the conceptualizations of rights and representations of African A

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Thadious M. Davis is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman’s Life Unveiled and Faulkner’s “Negro”: Art and the Southern Context. She is the coeditor of Satire or Evasion?: Black Perspectives on Huckleberry Finn, published by Duke University Press.

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“Every now and then, a book comes along that takes us utterly by surprise, reconfiguring old geographies of criticism with originality, power, and brilliance. Thadious M. Davis has produced just such a book. We (and William Faulkner!) are blessed by her attention to race, property, agency, game theory, and critical legal studies. Yoknapatawpha and its creator find radically new use value for a new millennium in Davis’s labors, and we are all gifted with beautifully written scholarship, and an indispensable pedagogical meditation. Davis’s ‘Book of Moses’ is must reading.”—Houston A. Baker, Jr., author of Turning South Again: Re-thinking Modernism/Re-reading Booker T.

”From the opening lines, we are in the presence of an original and powerful voice that expands the boundaries of the field of ‘law and literature’ and offers a fresh way of understanding one of William Faulkner’s most elliptical texts.”—Linda K. Kerber, May Brodbeck Professor of History, University of Iowa

”It may sound hyperbolic to claim that nothing like this exists in Faulkner scholarship, but that’s my claim. Games of Property contributes to a new understanding of not only Go Down, Moses, but of much of Faulkner’s work.”—Linda Wagner-Martin, Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Introduction: The Game of Genre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 The Game of Challenge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Chapter 2 The Object of Property Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Chapter 3 The Game of Boundaries Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Chapter 4 The Subject of Property Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
Chapter 5 Conclusion: The Game of Compensation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	330

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 352
Illustrations
- Other: 21 illustrations

eBook

Published: July 7, 2003
ISBN: 9780822384458