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050		4	_aE449 _b.E453 2018
100	1		_aEllis, Cristin, _d1978- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aAntebellum Posthuman : _bRace and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century / _cCristin Ellis.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aBaltimore, Maryland : _bProject Muse, _c2018
264		3	_aBaltimore, Md. : _bProject MUSE, _c2018
264		4	_c©2018
300			_a1 online resource (300 pages).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aIssued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 207-222) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction. beyond recognition : the problem of antebellum embodiment -- 1. Douglass's animals : racial science and the problem of human equality -- 2. Thoreau's seeds : evolution and the problem of human agency -- 3. Whitman's cosmic body : bioelectricity and the problem of human meaning -- 4. Posthumanism and the problem of social justice : race and materiality in the twenty-first century -- Coda. After romantic posthumanism.
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520			_aFrom 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.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aHumanism _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aRacism _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
651		0	_aUnited States _xRace relations _xHistory _y19th century.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse, _edistributor.
776	1	8	_iPrint version: _z9780823278442
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/57236/
945			_aProject MUSE - 2018 Complete
945			_aProject MUSE - 2018 History
945			_aProject MUSE - 2018 American Studies
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