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In "Games of Property, " distinguished critic Thadious M. Davis provides a dazzling new interpretation of William Faulkner's "Go Down, Moses. "Davis argues that in its unrelenting attention to issues related to the ownership of land and people, "Go Down, Moses" ranks among Faulkner's finest and most accomplished works. Bringing together law, social history, game theory, and feminist critiques, she shows that the book is unified by games--fox hunting, gambling with cards and dice, racing--and, like the law, games are rule-dependent forms of social control and commentary. She illuminates the...

In this innovative approach to southern literary cultures, Thadious Davis analyzes how black southern writers use their spatial location to articulate the vexed connections between society and environment, particularly under segregation and its legacies.

Basing her analysis on texts by Ernest Gaines, Richard Wright, Alice Walker, Natasha Trethewey, Olympia Vernon, Brenda Marie Osbey, Sybil Kein, and others, Davis reveals how these writers reconstitute racial exclusion as creative black space, rather than a site of trauma and resistance. Utilizing the social and political separation...

In "Games of Property, " distinguished critic Thadious M. Davis provides a dazzling new interpretation of William Faulkner's "Go Down, Moses. "Davis argues that in its unrelenting attention to issues related to the ownership of land and people, "Go Down, Moses" ranks among Faulkner's finest and most accomplished works. Bringing together law, social history, game theory, and feminist critiques, she shows that the book is unified by games--fox hunting, gambling with cards and dice, racing--and, like the law, games are rule-dependent forms of social control and commentary. She illuminates the...

Nella Larsen's remarkably candid exploration of shifting racial and sexual boundaries

Clare Kendry leads a dangerous life. Fair, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a white man unaware of her African American heritage, and has severed all ties to her past. Clare's childhood friend, Irene Redfield, just as light-skinned, has chosen to remain within the African American community, but refuses to acknowledge the racism that continues to constrict her family's happiness. A chance encounter forces both women to confront the lies they have told others--and the secret fears...