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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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Beyond recognition: the problem of antebellum embodiment
- Douglass's animals: racial science and the problem of human equality
- Thoreau's seeds: evolution and the problem of human agency
- Whitman's cosmic body: bioelectricity and the problem of human meaning
- Posthumanism and the problem of social justice: race and materiality in the twenty-first century
- Coda. After romantic posthumanism.