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008			150212s2015 nyu ob 001 0 eng d
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050	0	4	_aPS169 _b.S258 2015
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100	1		_aNaimou, Angela, _e1
245	1	0	_aSalvage Work : _bU.S. and Caribbean Literatures amid the Debris of Legal Personhood / _cAngela Naimou.
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aNew York : _bFordham University Press, _c(c)2015.
300			_a1 online resource.
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520	0		_a"Salvage Work examines contemporary literary responses to the law's construction of personhood in the Americas. Tracking the extraordinary afterlives of the legal slave personality from the nineteenth century into the twenty-first, Angela Naimou shows the legal slave to be a fractured but generative figure for contemporary legal personhood across categories of race, citizenship, gender, and labor. What emerges is a compelling and original study of how law invents categories of identification and how literature contends with the person as a legal fiction. Through readings of Francisco Goldman's The Ordinary Seaman, Edwidge Danticat's Krik?Krak!, Rosario Ferre's Sweet Diamond Dust (Maldito Amor), Gayl Jones's Song for Anninho and Mosquito, and John Edgar Wideman's Fanon, Naimou shows how literary engagements with legal personhood reconfigure formal narrative conventions in Black Atlantic historiography, the immigrant novel, the anticolonial romance, the trope of the talking book, and the bildungsroman. Revealing links between colonial, civic, slave, labor, immigration, and penal law, Salvage Work reframes debates over civil and human rights by revealing the shared hemispheric histories and effects of legal personhood across seemingly disparate identities-including the human and the corporate person, the political refugee and the economic migrant, and the stateless person and the citizen. In depicting the material remains of the legal slave personality in the de-industrialized neoliberal era, these literary texts develop a salvage aesthetic that invites us to rethink our political and aesthetic imagination of personhood. Questioning liberal frameworks for civil and human rights as well as what Naimou calls death-bound theories of personhood-in which forms of human life are primarily described as wasted, disposable, bare, or dead in law-Salvage Work thus responds to critical discussions of biopolitics and neoliberal globalization by exploring the potential for contemporary literature to reclaim the individual from the legal regimes that have marked her"-- _cProvided by publisher.
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505	0	0	_aMachine generated contents note: -- _tContents -- _tIntroduction: Contemporary Literature and the Legal Person 1 -- _tPart I: Legal Debris -- _t1. The Free, the Slave, and the Disappeared: States and Sites of Exceptional Personhood in Francisco Goldman's The Ordinary Seaman 000 -- _t2. Sugar's Legacies: Romance, Revolution, and Wageless Life in the Fiction of Edwidge Danticat and Rosario Ferré 000 -- _tPart II: Salvage Aesthetics -- _t3. Fugitive Personhood: Re-Imagining Sanctuary in Gayl Jones's Song For Anninho and Mosquito 000 -- _t4. Masking Fanon 000 -- _tEpilogue: Personhood at Its Limits: The Animal, the Fetus, and the Stateless Person 000 -- _tNotes 000 -- _tBibliography 000 -- _tIndex 000.
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650		0	_aAmerican literature _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aCaribbean literature _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aSelf in literature.
650		0	_aLaw and literature.
650		0	_aCitizenship in literature.
650		0	_aHuman rights in literature.
650		0	_aJuristic persons _xMoral and ethical aspects.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell