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Cover 1 Half Title, Title Page, Copyright 2 Contents 6 Introduction. Beyond Recognition: The Problem of Antebellum Embodiment 10 1. Douglass’s Animals: Racial Science and the Problem of Human Equality 32 2. Thoreau’s Seeds: Evolution and the Problem of Human Agency 70 3. Whitman’s Cosmic Body: Bioelectricity and the Problem of Human Meaning 105 4. Posthumanism and the Problem of Social Justice: Race and Materiality in the Twenty-First Century 144 Coda. After Romantic Posthumanism 170 Acknowledgments 180 Notes 182 Works Cited 216 Index 232 Publisher:Fordham University Press,Published:2018,ISBN:9780823278473,Related ISBN:9780823278442,DOI:10.1353/book.57236,Language:English,OCLC:1015878230 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

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Author

Cristin Ellis; DeGruyter

Publisher

Fordham University Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780823278459

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Literary Criticism