The regulations of robbers : legal fictions of slavery and resistance / Christina Accomando.

Author/creator Accomando, Christina
Format Book
Publication InfoColumbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2001.
Descriptionxii, 257 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
American prose literature--African American authors. --History and criticism.
American prose literature--Women authors. --History and criticism.
American prose literature--19th century. --History and criticism.
Feminism and literature--United States. --History. --19th century.
Enslaved persons--United States. --Biography. --History and criticism.
African American women--Biography. --History and criticism.
African Americans--Biography. --History and criticism.
Enslaved persons' writings, American--History and criticism.
Autobiography--African American authors.
Slavery in literature.
Law and literature.
Race in literature.

Contents Legal fictions of slavery and resistance -- "Further deponent sayeth not": multiple consciousness and suppressed narratives in tellings of slave revolt -- "I want it root and branch destroyed": the radical politics and shifting voices of Sojourner Truth. A woman among the pettifoggers: truth as legal actor -- Framing truth and resisting frames -- The regulations of robbers: Harriet Jacobs's legal critique. "We could have told them a different story": slave law and slave voices -- Reframing legal fictions of womanhood -- Epilogue. Confronting the legacies: decoding modern rhetorics of race.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 239-249) and index.
LCCN 2001002939
ISBN0814208835 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0814250815 (pbk. : alk. paper)