King, Lovalerie.

Race, theft, and ethics property matters in African American literature / [electronic resource] : Lovalerie King. - Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2007. - x, 187 p. : ill. - Southern literary studies . - Southern literary studies. .

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.


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2013.
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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 literature.


Electronic books.

PS153.N5 / K47 2007eb

810.9/355