Race matters, animal matters : fugitive humanism in African America, 1840-1930 /

Race Matters, Animal Matters challenges one of the grand narratives of African American studies: that African Americans rejected racist associations of blackness and animality through a disassociation from animality. Analyzing canonical texts written by Frederick Douglass, Charles Chesnutt, Ida B. W...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Johnson, Lindgren (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2018.
Colección:Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture.
Temas:
African Americans in literature.
Human-animal relationships in literature.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
Relations homme-animal dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
African Americans in literature
American literature > African American authors
Human-animal relationships in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Scenes of Slave Breaking and Making in Moses Roper's and Frederick Douglass' Slave Narratives
  • 2. "To Admit All Cattle without Distinction": Reconstructing Slaughter in the Slaughterhouse Cases and the New Orleans Crescent City Slaughterhouse
  • 3. Strange Fruits: Conjure, Slaughter, and The Politics of Disembodiment in Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman and Related Tales
  • 4. Wolves in Sheep's Clothing: Hunting and Domestication in Spectacle Lynchings
  • 5. Interspecies Welfare and Justice: Animal Welfare and the Anti-Lynching Movement.

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