'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.
It passes for an unassailable truth that the slave past provides an explanatory prism for understanding the black political present. In this book, the author reappraises what he calls "melancholy historicism"--A kind of crime scene investigation in which the forensic imagination…
It passes for an unassailable truth that the slave past provides an explanatory prism for understanding the black political present. In this book, the author reappraises what he calls "melancholy historicism"--A kind of crime scene investigation in which the forensic imagination…