Black well-being : health and selfhood in antebellum black literature /

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By analyzing slave narratives, emigration polemics, and black-authored fiction pieces, Stone reveals many reflections of injury, illness, disease, and disability, but she also highlights the equally numerous emphases on well-being by black authors.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stone, Andrea, 1971- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
Temas:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
Noirs américains > Vie intellectuelle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
American literature > African American authors.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Human, person, self: blackness and well-being
  • The ruled and regulated self: medicine and race science in the black new world
  • Ancient ideals and the healthy self: Mary Ann Shadd's plea for emigration and Martin Robison Delany's condition, elevation, emigration, and destiny
  • The self in pain: colonialism, disability, and national identity: Mary Prince, Sarah Pooley, and Lavina Wormeny
  • The protective self: slave sexual health, crime, and U.S. legal personhood: Celia's murder trial and Harriet Jacobs's incidents
  • The promising self: sexual expression, heroism, and revolution: Frederick Douglass's "The heroic slave" and Martin Robison Delany's Blake
  • Conclusion: Black intellectuals, black well-being: questions about the future of black American literary studies.

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