 | Salvage Work: U.S. and Caribbean Literatures amid the Debris of Legal Personhood Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism; Caribbean literature -- History and criticism; Self in literature; Law and literature; Citizenship in literature; Human rights in literature; Juristic persons -- Moral and ethical aspects; A study of post-1980 US and Caribbean literary responses to legal personhood. Analyzes literature by Francisco Goldman, Edwidge Danticat, Rosario Ferré, Gayl Jones, and John Edgar Wideman, which depict the legal slave as a generative legal category for labor, immigration, and human rights issues into the twenty-first century. Naimou Angela : Angela Naimou is Associate Professor of English at Clemson University.Angela Naimou is Associate Professor of English at Clemson University. |
