Ellis Cristin Antebellum Posthuman: Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 9780823278459

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Автор: Ellis Cristin
Название: Antebellum Posthuman: Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9780823278459
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Литературоведение: с 1800 до 1900 г.

История Америк

Социальная история и история культуры

Этнические исследования

Гражданские права и гражданство

ISBN-10: 082327845X
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 300
Вес: 0.34 кг.
Дата издания: 02.01.2018
Язык: English
Размер: 262 x 230 x 21
Ключевые слова: Literary theory,History of the Americas,Social & cultural history,Hispanic & Latino studies, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877),LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Подзаголовок: Race and materiality in the mid-nineteenth century
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Поставляется из: Англии
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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 called into question by the biological sciences. While this conflict between liberal humanism and biological materialism animates debates in posthumanism and critical race studies today, Antebellum Posthuman argues that it first emerged as a key question in the antebellum era.

In a moment in which the authority of science was increasingly invoked to defend slavery and other racist policies, abolitionist arguments underwent a profound shift, producing a new, materialist strain of antislavery. Engaging the works of Douglass, Thoreau, and Whitman, and Dickinson, Cristin Ellis identifies and traces the emergence of an antislavery materialism in mid-nineteenth century American literature, placing race at the center of the history of posthumanist thought. Turning to contemporary debates now unfolding between posthumanist and critical race theorists, Ellis demonstrates how this antebellum posthumanism highlights the difficulty of reconciling materialist ontologies of the human with the project of social justice.

Дополнительное описание:

Introduction. Beyond Recognition: The Problem of Antebellum Embodiment
1. Animal: Racial Science and the Problem of Human Equality
2. Vegetable: Evolution and the Problem of Human Agency
3. Cosmos: Bioelectricity and the Problem of Huma

Antebellum Posthuman: Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century, Ellis Cristin