The Monkey Suit

And Other Short Fiction on African Americans and Justice

David Dante Troutt

paperback

$14.95

Now in paperback, "rich and engaging" (Emerge) short stories on African Americans and the law in the tradition of Derrick Bell and Richard Wright.
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
Now available in paperback, The Monkey Suit is David Dante Troutt's "impressive" debut (Kirkus Reviews), 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."

David Dante Troutt is a law professor at Rutgers University. He lives in New York City. This is his first book.
History / Fiction / African American Studies / Law
Spring 1999
paperback
6 1/8 x 9 1/4, 328 pages
978-1-56584-524-4

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