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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... regarded as beings of an inferior order , and altogether unfit to asso- ciate with the white race , either in social or political relations ; and so far inferior , that they had no rights which the Introduction: The Game of Genre.
... regarded as beings of an inferior order , and altogether unfit to asso- ciate with the white race , either in social or political relations ; and so far inferior , that they had no rights which the Introduction: The Game of Genre.
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... - environment for studying the relation- ships among property , race , gender , and law . However , this study is not exclusively focused on Faulkner or Go Down , Moses . While it does offer a late twentieth- , THE GAME OF GENRE 3.
... - environment for studying the relation- ships among property , race , gender , and law . However , this study is not exclusively focused on Faulkner or Go Down , Moses . While it does offer a late twentieth- , THE GAME OF GENRE 3.
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... relations and bundled in legal 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 ...
... relations and bundled in legal 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 ...
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... relations law " : inferiority , property , and powerlessness.27 Although there may not have existed a uniform set of slave laws over time and in different states , there were laws that undergirded slavery and slave society , assuming ...
... relations law " : inferiority , property , and powerlessness.27 Although there may not have existed a uniform set of slave laws over time and in different states , there were laws that undergirded slavery and slave society , assuming ...
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... relation to legal and po- litical demands . The pervasive imposition of a separate and inferior social place on blacks in Mississippi was an accepted condition during the period in which Faulkner began work on the stories that would ...
... relation to legal and po- litical demands . The pervasive imposition of a separate and inferior social place on blacks in Mississippi was an accepted condition during the period in which Faulkner began work on the stories that would ...
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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