Antebellum Posthuman Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Ellis, Cristin, 1978- author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse 2018
Edición:First edition
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.