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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Автор: Johnson, Lindgren (Автор)
Формат: Книга
Мова:English
Опубліковано: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York , NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, c2018
Серія:Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture
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Зміст:
  • 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.