Stone, Andrea, 1974-
Black well-being health and selfhood in antebellum black literature / [electronic resource] : Andrea Stone. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016] - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references 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.
9780813055954 0813055954
African Americans--Intellectual life.
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PS153.N5 / S76 2016
810.9/896073
Black well-being health and selfhood in antebellum black literature / [electronic resource] : Andrea Stone. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016] - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references 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.
9780813055954 0813055954
African Americans--Intellectual life.
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PS153.N5 / S76 2016
810.9/896073