LEADER 03714oam 22006614a 450 001 996478970803316 005 20230302175249.0 010 $a0-8232-7847-6 010 $a0-8232-7846-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823278473 035 $a(CKB)3790000000549933 035 $a(OCoLC)1015878230 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse61333 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5185102 035 $a(DE-B1597)554944 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823278473 035 $a(OCoLC)1175627036 035 $a(ScCtBLL)4287cffa-812f-4120-8dc8-d5b99b61a10c 035 $a(EXLCZ)993790000000549933 100 $a20180109d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAntebellum Posthuman$eRace and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century /$fCristin Ellis 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aBaltimore, Maryland :$cProject Muse,$d2018 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (1 PDF (232 pages)) 311 $a0-8232-7845-X 311 $a0-8232-7844-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 207-222) and index. 327 $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. 330 $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. 606 $aHumanism$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aRacism$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations$xHistory$y19th century 610 $aAntislavery. 610 $aBiopolitics. 610 $aFrederick Douglass. 610 $aHenry David Thoreau. 610 $aNew Materialism. 610 $aNonhuman. 610 $aPosthumanism. 610 $aRacial Science. 610 $aSlavery. 610 $aWalt Whitman. 615 0$aHumanism$xHistory 615 0$aRacism$xHistory 676 $a144 700 $aEllis$b Cristin$f1978-$01023316 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996478970803316 996 $aAntebellum Posthuman$92430972 997 $aUNISA