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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stone, Andrea, 1971- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--African American authors.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African Americans.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiv, 238 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813062570

0813062578

OCLC:

913057816