Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Reimagining To Kill a Mockingbird: Family, Community, and the Possibility of Equal Justice Under Law

Austin Sarat & Martha Merrill Umphrey (Amherst College). Reimagining To Kill a Mockingbird (University
of Massachusetts Press, 2013).

"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 through the interdisciplinary lens of law and humanities scholarship.  The readings peel back the film's visual representation of the many-layered social world of Maycomb, Alabama, offering sometimes counterintuitive insights through the prism of provocative contemporary theoretical and interpretive questions."

Reimagining To Kill a Mockingbird book jacket