Being Property Once Myself - Blackness and the End of Man

Throughout US history, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons. Joshua Bennett explores the place of animality in works by Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Jesmyn Ward, and other black writers, delving into the literary imagination and ethical concerns that emerge from being viewed as a subgenre of the human.

About the author

Joshua Bennett is Professor of Literature and Distinguished Chair of the Humanities at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Spoken Word: A Cultural History, which was named one of The New York Times’s 100 Notable Books of 2023,The Study of Human Life, which is currently being adapted for television in partnership with Warner Brothers Television, Owed and The Sobbing School, winner of the National Poetry Series and a finalist for the NAACP Image Award. His writing has been published in The Best American Poetry, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and the Paris Review.

Product details

• Authors: Joshua Bennett, Bennett Joshua
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9780674271166
• ISBN: 978-0-674-27116-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; USA, Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, Literature: history & criticism, United States of America, USA, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Literature: history and criticism, Black & Asian Studies, Slavery and abolition of slavery, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black, Relating to African American / Black American people