The Monkey Suit: And Other Short Fiction on African Americans and Justice - Softcover

Troutt, David Dante

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565845242 ISBN 13: 9781565845244

Publisher: The New Press, 1999

Synopsis

The Monkey Suit is David Dante Troutt’s “impressive” debut (Kirkus), a collection of short stories inspired by historic legal cases involving African Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Monkey Suit addresses issues ranging from Jim Crow segregation ordinances to warrantless private property searches in stories the Washington Post calls “quietly devastating.” Troutt brilliantly combines legal scholarship with literature in a book that Claude Brown calls “truly a work of genius.”

About this title

About the Author:

David Dante Troutt is a professor of law and Justice John J. Francis Scholar at Rutgers University. Author of The Monkey Suit (The New Press), among other books, he lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Review:

David Dante Troutt's short stories combine legal scholarship and literature brilliantly. The Monkey Suit is truly a work of genius. -- Claude Brown

Impressive. . . strong and memorable. -- Publishers Weekly

Time for serious praise and celebration: David Dante Troutt arrives with the persuasion of Richard Wright, the imagination of Jean Toomer, and an original, fierce intellect all his own! The Monkey Suit will seize you by the short hairs and overtake your heart. -- June Jordan

About this edition

• Publisher: The New Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1565845242
• ISBN 13: 9781565845244
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328