Legal Fictions argues that U.S. racial identity is the creation of U.S. law. Exploring the resonance between U.S. literature and U.S. jurisprudence, Holloway engages the intentional, contradictory, and capricious constructions of race embedded in the law with the same energy that she brings to her bravura interpretations of fiction by U.S. writers. Her readings shed new light on the many ways that black U.S. authors have reframed fundamental questions about racial identity. Legal Fictions is a bold declaration that the black body is thoroughly bound by law and an unflinchingly look at the implications of that claim.
"In this wonderful book Karla Holloway...offers new interpretations of fictional work by bringing to bear knowledge derived from her deep immersion in legal studies. This is, in short, a remarkable example of productive interdisciplinarity from which all sorts of readers will learn a great deal."
Randall Kennedy. Michael R. Klein Professor of Law, Harvard University. Author of The Persistence of the Color Line.
"Legal Fictions represents a culmination (if not the culmination) of Holloway's rich corpus of criticism and theory.... This book is Holloway at her best: intelligent and thoughtful, fully in command of the critical vocabularies that she introduces, and thoroughly knowledgeable about the fields she traverses."
Farah Jasmine Griffin. Professor of English, Comp Literature, African American Studies, Columbia University. Author of Harlem Nocturne.
"In this wonderful book Karla Holloway...offers new interpretations of fictional work by bringing to bear knowledge derived from her deep immersion in legal studies. This is, in short, a remarkable example of productive interdisciplinarity from which all sorts of readers will learn a great deal."
Randall Kennedy. Michael R. Klein Professor of Law, Harvard University. Author of The Persistence of the Color Line.
"Legal Fictions represents a culmination (if not the culmination) of Holloway's rich corpus of criticism and theory.... This book is Holloway at her best: intelligent and thoughtful, fully in command of the critical vocabularies that she introduces, and thoroughly knowledgeable about the fields she traverses."
Farah Jasmine Griffin. Professor of English, Comp Literature, African American Studies, Columbia University. Author of Harlem Nocturne.
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Private Bodies persuasively argues for a cultural ethics... which gives constitutive weight to...the cultural contexts of race and gender identity. Her discussion of the events at Memorial Medical Center after Katrina will become a classic in the field...." Baruch A. Brody. Leon Jaworski Professor, Baylor College of Medicine "...an illuminating meditation on the social construction of personal identity, with special focus on gender and race.... This is a subtle, challenging book." Robert A. Burt. Bickel Professor of Law, Yale U "...as powerful as it is beautifully written. ...She reminds us, with sometimes piercing insight, just how critical gender and race can be in making meaning out of both." Ruth R. Faden. Director. Berman Institute of Bioethics & Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics. Johns Hopkins U |
