![]() ![]() Each chapter tracks a specific animal-the rat, the cock, the mule, the dog, the shark-in the works of Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, Jesmyn Ward, and Robert Hayden. ![]() 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. 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."įor much of American history, Black people have been conceived and legally defined as nonpersons, a subgenre of the human. ![]() ![]() "This trenchant work of literary criticism examines the complex ways.African American authors have written about animals. Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize ![]()
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