Argues that African American literature has profound and deliberate legal roots. Tracing this throughline from the eighteenth century to the present, Christopher Brown demonstrates that engaging with legal culture in its many forms - including its conventions, paradoxes, and contradictions - is paramount to understanding Black writing.


Format Häftad Omfång 212 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag University Press of Mississippi Utgivningsdatum 2024-01-15 ISBN 9781496848208