Ellis, Cristin
자료유형 | 단행본 |
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개인저자 | Ellis, Cristin, 1978-, author. |
서명/저자사항 | Antebellum posthuman :race and materiality in the mid-nineteenth century :Cristin Ellis. |
판사항 | First edition. |
발행사항 | 2018. |
형태사항 | 1 online resource (241 pages). |
기타형태 저록 | Print version: Ellis, Cristin. Antebellum Posthuman : Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. New York : Fordham University Press, Ã2018, 9780823278442 |
ISBN | 9780823278466 0823278468 |
내용주기 | Introduction. Beyond recognition: the problem of antebellum embodiment -- Douglass's animals: racial science and the problem of human equality -- Thoreau's seeds: evolution and the problem of human agency -- Whitman's cosmic body: bioelectricity and the problem of human meaning -- Posthumanism and the problem of social justice: race and materiality in the twenty-first century -- Coda. After romantic posthumanism. |
요약 | From the eighteenth-century abolitionist motto "Am I Not a Man and a Brother?" to the Civil Rights-era declaration "I AM a Man," antiracism has engaged in a struggle for the recognition of black humanity. It has done so, however, even as the very definition of the human has been called into question by the biological sciences. While this conflict between liberal humanism and biological materialism animates debates in posthumanism and critical race studies today, Antebellum Posthuman argues that it first emerged as a key question in the antebellum era. In a moment in which the authority of science was increasingly invoked to defend slavery and other racist policies, abolitionist arguments underwent a profound shift, producing a new, materialist strain of antislavery. Engaging the works of Douglass, Thoreau, and Whitman, and Dickinson, Cristin Ellis identifies and traces the emergence of an antislavery materialism in mid-nineteenth century American literature, placing race at the center of the history of posthumanist thought. Turning to contemporary debates now unfolding between posthumanist and critical race theorists, Ellis demonstrates how this antebellum posthumanism highlights the difficulty of reconciling materialist ontologies of the human with the project of social justice. |
일반주제명 | Humanism -- 19th century. Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Social justice. PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism. Social justice. Humanism. Antislavery movements. |
주제명(지명) | United States.fast |
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