Outside the Law : Narratives on Justice in America

by SHREVE, SUSAN RICHARDS

• ISBN13: 9780807044070
• ISBN10: 0807044075
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1998-08-01
• Publisher: Beacon Press

Summary

Seventeen original pieces of writing that use powerful storytelling to define justice, to give it a face, and to show how it affects the lives of every one of us. Includes contributions from Julia Alvarez, Richard Bausch, Madison Smartt Bell, Blanche McCrary Boyd, John Casey, Michael Dorris, Garrett Hongo, Charles Johnson, Alex Kotlowitz, Beverly Lowry, Martha Minow, Clarence Page, Sarah Pettit, Ntozake Shange, Susan Richards Shreve, Gerald M. Stern, Daniel J. Wideman, and John Edgar Wideman.

Author Biography

SUSAN RICHARDS SHREVE has published thirteen novels, most recently A Student of Living Things. She is a professor of English at George Mason University and formerly cochair and president of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. She has received several grants for fiction writing, including a Guggenheim fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts award. Shreve lives in Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: Seeking Justice	p. 1
A Genetics of Justice	p. 14
A Confession	p. 22
True Morality	p. 32
Who Killed Susan Smith?	p. 43
Justice as a Nourisher of Narrative	p. 61
The Myth of Justice	p. 76
HR 442: Redress	p. 82
Executive Decision	p. 93
Where Was the Village?	p. 106
Secret Ceremonies of Love and Death	p. 111
Runaway Jurors: Race Versus the Evidence	p. 119
Justify Our Love	p. 130
Justice	p. 137
The Silent Juror	p. 142
Mississippi	p. 153
Free Papers	p. 173
Justice: A Perspective	p. 184
Contributors	p. 192
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