Black well-being : health and selfhood in antebellum black literature /
By analyzing slave narratives, emigration polemics, and black-authored fiction pieces, Stone reveals many reflections of injury, illness, disease, and disability, but she also highlights the equally numerous emphases on well-being by black authors.
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Human, person, self: blackness and well-being
- The ruled and regulated self: medicine and race science in the black new world
- Ancient ideals and the healthy self: Mary Ann Shadd's plea for emigration and Martin Robison Delany's condition, elevation, emigration, and destiny
- The self in pain: colonialism, disability, and national identity: Mary Prince, Sarah Pooley, and Lavina Wormeny
- The protective self: slave sexual health, crime, and U.S. legal personhood: Celia's murder trial and Harriet Jacobs's incidents
- The promising self: sexual expression, heroism, and revolution: Frederick Douglass's "The heroic slave" and Martin Robison Delany's Blake
- Conclusion: Black intellectuals, black well-being: questions about the future of black American literary studies.
