Race matters, animal matters : fugitive humanism in African America, 1840-1930 /
Race Matters, Animal Matters challenges one of the grand narratives of African American studies: that African Americans rejected racist associations of blackness and animality through a disassociation from animality. Analyzing canonical texts written by Frederick Douglass, Charles Chesnutt, Ida B. W...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York , NY :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
c2018
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| Collection: | Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture
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Table des matières:
- Chapter Introduction
- Fugitive Humanism in African America / Lindgren Johnson
- chapter 1 Scenes of Slave Breaking and Making in Moses Roper’s and Frederick Douglass’ Slave Narratives / Lindgren Johnson
- chapter 2 “To Admit All Cattle without Distinction”Reconstructing Slaughter in the Slaughterhouse Cases and the New Orleans Crescent City Slaughterhouse / Lindgren Johnson
- chapter 3 Strange FruitsConjure, Slaughter, and The Politics of Disembodiment in Charles Chesnutt’s The Conjure Woman and Related Tales / Lindgren Johnson
- chapter 4 Wolves in Sheep’s ClothingHunting and Domestication in Spectacle Lynchings / Lindgren Johnson
- chapter 5 Interspecies Welfare and JusticeAnimal Welfare and the Anti-Lynching Movement / Lindgren Johnson
- chapter EpilogueSanctuary and Asylum / Lindgren Johnson.