Race Matters, Animal Matters - Fugitive Humanism in African America, 1840-1930

Informationen zum Autor Lindgren Johnson is Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia! USA. Zusammenfassung This book challenges the narrative that African American writers rejected racist associations of blackness and animality through a disassociation from animality. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsIntroduction. Fugitive Humanism in African AmericaChapter 1. Scenes of Slave Breaking and Making in Moses Roper's and Frederick Douglass' Slave NarrativesChapter 2. "To Admit All Cattle without Distinction": Reconstructing Slaughter in the Slaughterhouse Cases and the New Orleans Crescent City SlaughterhouseChapter 3. Strange Fruits: Conjure! Slaughter! and The Politics of Disembodiment in Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman and Related TalesChapter 4. Wolves in Sheep's Clothing: Hunting and Domestication in Spectacle LynchingsChapter 5. Interspecies Welfare and Justice: Animal Welfare and the Anti-Lynching Movement Epilogue. Sanctuary and Asylum

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• Authors: Lindgren Johnson, Lindgren (Virginia Union University Johnson, Johnson Lindgren
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9780367358969
• ISBN: 978-0-367-35896-9
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Ethnic Studies, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Animals & society, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Animals and society, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Black & Asian Studies, c 1900 to c 1909, Slavery and abolition of slavery, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black, Social discrimination and social justice, Relating to African American / Black American people