The legal life of objects : speaking evidence and mute subjects in Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson
In this paper, I argue that legal authorities assign speaking power to objects and evidence in the courtroom in order to deny speaking power to racialized subjects and police racial identities. Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894) demonstrates how the law transverses the human/object boundary in o...
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2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/26368 |