Title Whispered consolations : law and narrative in African American life / Jon-Christian Suggs.

Publication Info.	Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2000]
	©2000

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	KF4757 .S84 2000	Available	---

Description	xiii, 401 pages ; 24 cm.
Series	Law, meaning, and violence
	Law, meaning, and violence.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-390) and index.
Contents	In search of justice and jurisprudence -- Romance and resistance -- The romance of desire and identity -- Privacy, property, and self -- Law and the urbanization of narrative in "postproperty" African American life -- Lynchings and passing -- Resistance in Renascence -- At the end of histories.
Subject	African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.
	African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.
	Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States.
	Race discrimination -- Law and legislation.
	United States.
	Justice.
	Justice.
	Law in literature.
	African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.
	American literature -- History and criticism.
	American literature -- African American authors.
ISBN	0472106511 cloth acid-free paper