Whispered Consolations: Law and Narrative in African American Life.(Review)(Brief Article) African American Review | September 22, 2001 | COPYRIGHT 2001 African American Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Suggs, Jon-Christian. Whispered Consolations: Law and Narrative in African American Life. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2000.401 pp.$67.50.

The first two sentences of the preface state the project of this interesting work: "This book is interpretative and draws on law, history, and literature. Its intent is to describe something of the status and substance of African American life... by looking at texts by African American writers not usually discussed in conjunction with one another and at the legal and historical contexts in which they were produced." The range is ...

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