Reimagining To kill a mockingbird : family, community, and the possibility of equal justice under law /

Fifty years after the release of the film version of Harper Lee's acclaimed novel To Kill a Mockingbird, this collection of original essays takes a fresh look at a classic text in legal scholarship. The contributors revisit and examine Atticus, Scout, and Jem Finch, their community, and the eve...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Umphrey, Martha Merrill (Editor), Sarat, Austin (Editor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press [2013]
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Literature.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5vk9wr
Table of Contents:
  • A Reimagining To Kill a Mockingbird: An Introduction / MARTHA MERRILL UMPHREY & AUSTIN SARAT
  • Temporal Horizons: On the Possibilities of Law and Fatherhood in To Kill a Mockingbird / AUSTIN SARAT & MARTHA MERRILL UMPHREY
  • I Would Kill for You: Love, Law, and Sacrifice in To Kill a Mockingbird / LINDA ROSS MEYER
  • Motherless Children Have a Hard Time: Man as Mother in To Kill a Mockingbird / THOMAS L. DUMM
  • If That Mockingbird Don't Sing: Scaffolding, Signifying, and Queering a Classic / IMANI PERRY
  • A Ritual of Redemption: Reimagining Community in To Kill a Mockingbird / NAOMI MEZEY
  • "We Don't Have Mockingbirds in Britain, Do We?" / SUSAN SAGE HEINZELMAN
  • Dead Animals / RAVIT REICHMAN
  • Humans, Animals, and Boundary Objects in Maycomb / COLIN DAYAN.