Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner's Go Down, MosesDuke University Press, 2003 M07 7 - 339 páginas In Games of Property, distinguished critic Thadious M. Davis provides a dazzling new interpretation of William Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses. Davis argues that in its unrelenting attention to issues related to the ownership of land and people, Go Down, Moses ranks among Faulkner’s finest and most accomplished works. Bringing together law, social history, game theory, and feminist critiques, she shows that the book is unified by games—fox hunting, gambling with cards and dice, racing—and, like the law, games are rule-dependent forms of social control and commentary. She illuminates the dual focus in Go Down, Moses on property and ownership on the one hand and on masculine sport and social ritual on the other. Games of Property is a masterful contribution to understandings of Faulkner’s fiction and the power and scope of property law. |
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... discourse on the philosophical bases of owner- ship , and its focus on legal issues of inheritance , succession , and pos- session . Because the text extends in time from the 1830s through the 1940s , it takes into account the century ...
... discourse on the philosophical bases of owner- ship , and its focus on legal issues of inheritance , succession , and pos- session . Because the text extends in time from the 1830s through the 1940s , it takes into account the century ...
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... discourses available to him . The biblical account of the enslavement of the Israelites in Egypt and Moses ' leading them out of bondage , though expressive of the larger issues of slavery , oppression , and freedom and symbolically ...
... discourses available to him . The biblical account of the enslavement of the Israelites in Egypt and Moses ' leading them out of bondage , though expressive of the larger issues of slavery , oppression , and freedom and symbolically ...
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... discourses that when linked to race produce specific responses to power . Games , I take to be liberatory and democratic . Law , I take to be constrictive and arbitrary . Both are marked by a narrativity connecting them in my analysis ...
... discourses that when linked to race produce specific responses to power . Games , I take to be liberatory and democratic . Law , I take to be constrictive and arbitrary . Both are marked by a narrativity connecting them in my analysis ...
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... discourse with political values . A property relation can be defined , for instance , in labor ( Locke ) , as utility ( Bentham ) , or in protection ( Marx ) . Both law and games are forms of social control and discursive bodies of ...
... discourse with political values . A property relation can be defined , for instance , in labor ( Locke ) , as utility ( Bentham ) , or in protection ( Marx ) . Both law and games are forms of social control and discursive bodies of ...
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... discourses of the text . The son's name bears witness to Tomasina and the crime against her , so that the silence forced on the mother gives way to the verbal testimony of the son's name . That name , Tomey's Turl , evokes and ...
... discourses of the text . The son's name bears witness to Tomasina and the crime against her , so that the silence forced on the mother gives way to the verbal testimony of the son's name . That name , Tomey's Turl , evokes and ...
Contenido
The Game of Challenge | 43 |
The Object of Property | 77 |
The Game of Boundaries | 119 |
The Subject of Property | 174 |
Conclusion The Game of Compensation | 223 |
Notes | 263 |
Bibliography | 309 |
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Absalom African American American Beauchamp become body bondage boundaries Butch C. B. Macpherson Cambridge Caroline Barr Carothers McCaslin Carothers's Chickasaw Civil codes Compson concept construction Court critical race theory cultural daughter death defined discourse domination Dred Scott economic Edmonds Emancipation enslaved erty Essays Eunice father Faulk female fiction freedom gender grandfather Hubert human hunt identity ideology Ike McCaslin Ike's incest inheritance justice labor land ledgers Louisiana State University Lucas male marriage Mary Frances Berry masculine McCaslin miscegenation Molly moral Moses mother narrative Negro nigger novel object of property old Carothers owners ownership person plantation play players political Press of Mississippi property rights race racial reading relations reprint Rowan Oak sexual shame slave slave law slavery social society Sophonsiba South Southern space story Terrel theory Thucydus tion Tomasina Tomey's Turl Turl's Uncle Uncle Buck wife William Faulkner woman Yoknapatawpha York
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