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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stone, Andrea, 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Noirs americains > Vie intellectuelle.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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