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DESCRIPTION:Faith Barter\, English and 2022–23 OHC Faculty Research Fello
 w.\n\nPlease register to attend.\n\nBlack Pro Se examines antebellum Afric
 an American writing that mobilizes specific legal forms and strategies: ap
 peal\, confession\, jurisdictional attack\, and encryption (citation). In 
 framing these legal strategies as literary subversion\, Black Pro Se delib
 erately reads beyond the well-documented testimonial power of antebellum B
 lack writing\, situating that literature instead as a site of under-theori
 zed legal imagination that experimented with visions for Black futures wit
 hin and beyond a U.S. nation-state. Historically\, scholars have –necess
 arily –focused on the ways that this literature\, especially slave narra
 tives and other forms of abolitionist writing\, documented or testified to
  slavery’s full brutality. Black Pro Se contextualizes that writing as a
  form of visionary worldbuilding\, demonstrating how Black writers used le
 gal forms in innovative and counterintuitive ways. Literature that appears
  to perform an affiliation with law or a demand to be included in dominant
  legal frameworks is often\, I argue\, a container for radical re-scriptin
 gs of law and power that envision entirely new forms of social relation an
 d belonging. The appeal form\, for instance\, might act as a vessel in whi
 ch a writer\, seeming to seek redress from a white legal regime\, actually
  re-imagines a logic of power that positions Blackness as the ultimate jud
 icial authority. By positioning antebellum Black writers not merely as wit
 nesses but as architects of legal possibility\, Black Pro Se reframes the 
 rise of Black literature in the 19thcentury.
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SUMMARY:“Black Pro Se: Authorship and the Limits of Law in 19th-Century A
 frican American Literature”
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 d_the_limits_of_law_in_19th-century_african_american_literature
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
CATEGORIES:Lecture
CATEGORIES:Academic
CATEGORIES:Diversity and Multiculturalism
CATEGORIES:Black and African American
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