Antebellum Posthuman : Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century / / Cristin Ellis.
From the eighteenth-century abolitionist motto "Am I Not a Man and a Brother?" to the Civil Rights-era declaration "I AM a Man," antiracism has engaged in a struggle for the recognition of black humanity. It has done so, however, even as the very definition of the human has been...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Baltimore, Maryland : : Project Muse,, 2018 ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 PDF (232 pages)) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. beyond recognition : the problem of antebellum embodiment
- 1. Douglass's animals : racial science and the problem of human equality
- 2. Thoreau's seeds : evolution and the problem of human agency
- 3. Whitman's cosmic body : bioelectricity and the problem of human meaning
- 4. Posthumanism and the problem of social justice : race and materiality in the twenty-first century
- Coda. After romantic posthumanism.