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Columns::March 25, 2002
Weekly Reader
New book takes literary look at law
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$24.95
Peter Lang Publishers |
Written by Marisa Anne Pagnattaro, a UGA alumna and faculty member in the Terry College of Business, In Defiance of the Law analyzes works in American literature to consider the tension between the desire for social control and the effect on individuals. The concept of “justice” is considered in each work in which female characters act according to their own code, which is at odds with civil law.
As revealed by the examination of Anne Hutchinson and the trials of two American Indian women in Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie, the Massachusetts Bay Colony enacted laws on an as-needed basis to thwart political dissension and to subdue the threat of the Pequot Indians. Moreover, federal and state law was used to support slavery and to deny African Americans’ rights. Pagnattaro considers slave women who violate the law in works from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin to Toni Morrison’s Beloved.
In each context, women’s acts of civil disobedience make a powerful statement about the importance of defying unjust laws. |
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