Game Theory and Minorities in American Literature

"This pioneering study applies the theory of games of strategy (or game theory) to a selection of minoritarian texts from the American canon. Concentrating on rational decision making, the discussion introduces the most common social dilemmas, the Stag Hunt, the Prisoner's Dilemma, Chicken, and Deadlock, as a means of interpreting works by Franklin, Douglass, Jacobs, Hurston, Faulkner, Morrison, and Hamid"--