Constante González Groba, Ewa Barbara Luczak, Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis

Pathologizing Black Bodies (eBook, ePUB)

The Legacy of Plantation Slavery

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Pathologizing Black Bodies reconsiders the black body as a site of cultural and corporeal interchange. This volume aims to use literature to further examine the problematic relationship between race and the body and stress that black lives do indeed matter in the USA.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000875102
• Artikelnr.: 67689811

Autorenporträt

Constante González Groba is Full Professor of American literature at the University of Santiago (Spain).

Ewa Barbara Luczak is Professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw and President of the Polish Association for American Studies.

Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis is Associate Professor of literary studies at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (KUL), Poland. She earned her PhD in American studies in 2006 from KUL.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Corporeal Afterlives of Plantation Slavery

Part I: "Pathologizing 'Blood'"

1. "There's pow'r in the blood": Blood Transfusions and Racial Serology in Wallace Thurman's "Grist in the Mill"

Ewa Barbara Luczak

2. Eugenic Sterilization in Toni Morrison's Home: Perpetrators and the Ethics of Engaged Witnessing

Ewa Barbara Luczak

Part II: Pathologizing the Body

3. From the Prison of Slavery to the Slavery of Prison: Incarcerated Black Bodies in Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing and Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys

Constante González Groba

4. Pathologizing Race, Pathologizing Metastatic Racism: From Lillian Smith to Ibram Kendi

Constante González Groba

Part III: De-Pathologizing Access to Food and Land

5. "Healthy Is the New Gangsta": Food Apartheid and Black Culinary Culture in Southern Hip-Hop

Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis

6. Black Land Matters: Geographies of Race and Politics of Land in Natalie Baszile's Queen Sugar

Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis