Fugitive's Properties Law and the Poetics of Possession

Name: Fugitive's Properties Law and the Poetics of Possession
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ISBN: 9780226044347

ISBN-10: 0226044343

ISBN-13: 9780226044347

Edition: 2004

Authors: Stephen M. Best

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'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.

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/2/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.91" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Debts


Introduction


The Slave's Two Bodies


Fugitive Property


The Agency of Form




Fugitive Sound: Fungible Personhood, Evanescent Property Theft and Gift


Copyright Law


The Human Phonograph


The Poetics of Property, 1857



Impersonation




The Fugitive's Properties



Incalculable Dividend Fictions of Finance: Puttin' on Old Massa



Castles in the Air The Social Covenant of Property


Cuttin' of Figgers




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


Notes


Index