The fugitive's properties : law and the poetics of possession
'The Fugitive's Properties' uncovers a poetics of intangible personified property emerging out of antebellum laws circulating through key 19th century works of literature, & informing cultural forms such as blackface minstrelsy & early race films
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (xii, 362 pages) : illustrations
9780226241111, 9780226044330, 0226241114, 0226044335
649906200
INTRODUCTION: The Slave's Two Bodies
Fugitive Property
The Agency of Form
Caveat Emptor: Fugitive Sound: Fungible Personhood, Evanescent Property
Theft and Gift
Copyright Law
The Human Phonograph
The Poetics of Property, 1857: Dred Scott v. Sandford
Impersonation
Pro Bono Publico: The Fugitive's Properties: Uncle Tom's Incalculable Dividend
Fictions of Finance: Puttin' on Old Massa
Pro Bono Publico
Tom's par me la
Castles in the Air
The Social Covenant of Property
Cuttin' of Figgers
Sine Qua Non: Counterfactuals, Causation, and the Tenses of "Separate but Equal"
In Plain Black and White
Parallel Tracks
What Happened in the Tunnel
CONCLUSION: The Rules of the Game
Sin and Risk
Principle and History
Procedure and Pragmatism
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