Black Well-Being
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19th Century literature
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Abolitionism
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black selfhood
Canada
Caribbean history
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Diaspora
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Exceptionalism
Fiction
Fredrick Douglass
George Combe
Harriet Jacobs
Heroism
illness
Josiah Nott
Lavina Wormeny
Martin Delany
Mary Ann Shadd
Mary Prince
medico-political theory
New World
Racism
Sarah Pooley
sex abuse
Slavery
Theodore Parker
Thomas Roderick Dew
Transcontinental
transnational
United States History
West Indies
William Harper
Product details
- ISBN 9780813069456
- Weight: 333g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 03 May 2022
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Analyzing slave narratives, emigration polemics, a murder trial, and black-authored fiction, Andrea Stone highlights the central role physical and mental health and well-being played in antebellum black literary constructions of selfhood. At a time when political and medical theorists emphasized black well-being in their arguments for or against slavery, African American men and women developed their own theories about what it means to be healthy and well in contexts of injury, illness, sexual abuse, disease, and disability.
Such portrayals of the healthy black self in early black print culture created a nineteenth-century politics of well-being that spanned continents. Even in conditions of painful labor, severely limited resources, and physical and mental brutality, these writers counter stereotypes and circumstances by representing and claiming the totality of bodily existence.
Such portrayals of the healthy black self in early black print culture created a nineteenth-century politics of well-being that spanned continents. Even in conditions of painful labor, severely limited resources, and physical and mental brutality, these writers counter stereotypes and circumstances by representing and claiming the totality of bodily existence.
Andrea Stone is associate professor of English language and literature at Smith College.
