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02850aam a22004218i 4500 001 591491C08E9811EAB83BD64B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200505011818 008 190923s2020 mau b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019040015 020 $a 0674980301 020 $a 9780674980303 035 $a (OCoLC)1111377238 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS173 N4 B46 2020 100 1 $a Bennett, Joshua $c (Poet) $e author. 245 10 $a Being property once myself : $b blackness and the end of man / $c Joshua Bennett. 263 $a 2002 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a 213 pages cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 1 $a Introduction: Horse -- Rat -- Cock -- Mule -- Dog -- Shark. 520 $a "Throughout US history, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons, a subgenre of the human. Being Property Once Myself delves into the literary imagination and ethical concerns that have emerged from this experience. 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. 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. Bennett also turns to the black radical tradition to challenge the pervasiveness of antiblackness in discourses surrounding the environment and animals. Being Property Once Myself is an incisive work of literary criticism and a close reading of undertheorized notions of dehumanization and the Anthropocene"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Blacks in literature. 650 0 $a American literature $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Literature and race $z United States. 650 0 $a Animals in literature. 650 0 $a Anthropomorphism in literature. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Bennett, Joshua, 1988- $t Being property once myself $d Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020. $z 9780674245464 $w (DLC) 2019040016 941 $a 4 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117031723.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20211005013629.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20200929010424.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20200721011517.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=591491C08E9811EAB83BD64B97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search