{"product_id":"antebellum-posthuman-race-and-materiality-in-the-mid-nineteenth-century-paperback-softback-9780823278459","title":"Antebellum Posthuman; Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (Paperback \/ softback) 9780823278459","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAntebellum Posthuman\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRace and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCristin Ellis (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823278459\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 2 January 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e300 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.366 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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. \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. Beyond Recognition: The Problem of Antebellum Embodiment \u003cbr\u003e 1. Animal: Racial Science and the Problem of Human Equality\u003cbr\u003e 2. Vegetable: Evolution and the Problem of Human Agency\u003cbr\u003e 3. Cosmos: Bioelectricity and the Problem of Human Meaning\u003cbr\u003e 4. Posthumanism and the Problem of Social Justice (Race and Materiality in the Twenty-first Century)\u003cbr\u003e Coda. After Romantic Posthumanism \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580310679832,"sku":"9780823278459","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/antebellum-posthuman-race-and-materiality-in-the-mid-nineteenth-century-paperback-softback-9780823278459","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}