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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2016.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813055954
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PS153 .B533 2016
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Contents:
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.
Subject: 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.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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.

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