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Being property once myself : Blackness and the end of man
- Title
- Being property once myself : Blackness and the end of man / Joshua Bennett.
- Author
- Bennett, Joshua (Poet)
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020.
- ©2020
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Details
- Description
- 213 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Throughout US history, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons, a subgenre of the human. Being Property Once Myself delves into the literary imagination and ethical concerns that have emerged from this experience. Each chapter tracks a specific animal figure-the rat, the cock, the mule, the dog, and the shark-in the works of black authors such as Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, Jesmyn Ward, and Robert Hayden. The plantation, the wilderness, the kitchenette overrun with pests, the simultaneous valuation and sale of animals and enslaved people-all are sites made unforgettable by literature in which we find black and animal life in fraught proximity. Joshua Bennett argues that animal figures are deployed in these texts to assert a theory of black sociality and to combat dominant claims about the limits of personhood. Bennett also turns to the black radical tradition to challenge the pervasiveness of antiblackness in discourses surrounding the environment and animals. Being Property Once Myself is an incisive work of literary criticism and a close reading of undertheorized notions of dehumanization and the Anthropocene"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Horse -- Rat -- Cock -- Mule -- Dog -- Shark.
- Call Number
- Sc D 21-224
- ISBN
- 9780674980303
- 0674980301
- LCCN
- 2019040015
- OCLC
- 1111377238
- Author
- Bennett, Joshua (Poet), author.
- Title
- Being property once myself : Blackness and the end of man / Joshua Bennett.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 21-224