The fugitive's properties : law and the poetics of possession
'The Fugitive's Properties' uncovers a poetics of intangible, personified property emerging out of antebellum laws, circulating through key 19th century works of literature, and informing cultural forms such as blackface minstrel performance and early race films.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780226044330, 9780226044347, 0226044335, 0226044343
52765809
INTRODUCTION: The Slave's Two Bodies
Fugitive Property
The Agency of Form
Caveat Emptor: Fugitive Sound: Fungible Personhood, Evanescent Property
Theft and Gift
Copyright Law
The Human Phonograph
The Poetics of Property, 1857: Dred Scott v. Sandford
Impersonation
Pro Bono Publico: The Fugitive's Properties: Uncle Tom's Incalculable Dividend
Fictions of Finance: Puttin' on Old Massa
Pro Bono Publico
Tom's par me la
Castles in the Air
The Social Covenant of Property
Cuttin' of Figgers
Sine Qua Non: 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