Stone, Andrea,  1971- <br/><br/>
Black well-being :  health and selfhood in antebellum black literature / 
Andrea Stone. 
 - Gainesville :  University Press of Florida,  (c)2016. 
 - 1 online resource 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813055954 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.<br/>African Americans--Intellectual life.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS153  / .B533 2016