The plantation, the wilderness, the kitchenette overrun with pests, the simultaneous valuation and sale of animals and enslaved people all are sites made unforgettable by literature in which we find Black and animal life in fraught proximity.Joshua Bennett argues that animal figures are deployed in these texts to assert a theory of Black sociality and to combat dominant claims about the limits of personhood. Each chapter tracks a specific animal figure the rat, the cock, the mule, the dog, and the shark in the works of Black authors such as Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, Jesmyn Ward, and Robert Hayden. Being Property Once Myself delves into the literary imagination and ethical concerns that have emerged from this experience. Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough PrizeA prizewinning poet argues that Blackness acts as the caesura between human and nonhuman, man and animal.Throughout US history, Black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons, a subgenre of the human. In Being Property Once Myself, prize-winning poet Joshua Bennett shows that Blackness has long acted as the caesura between human and nonhuman and delves into the literary imagination and ethical concerns that have emerged from this experience.Language: English.
In Bennett's analysis, Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Jesmyn Ward, and others subvert the racist comparisons that have 'been used against them as a tool of derision and denigration.'.An intense and illuminating reevaluation of black literature and Western thought." -Ron Charles, Washington PostFor much of American history, Black people have been conceived and legally defined as nonpersons, a subgenre of the human. Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize"This trenchant work of literary criticism examines the complex ways.African American authors have written about animals. Read Or Download Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man By Joshua Bennett Full Pages.
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