Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man (Bennett Joshua)(Paperback)

"An intense and illuminating reevaluation of black literature and Western thought."
--Ron Charles, Washington Post "A gripping work...Bennett's lyrical lilt in his sharp analyses makes for a thorough yet accessible read."
--LSE Review of Books "Tremendously illuminating...Bennett's refreshing and field-defining approach shows how both classic and contemporary African American authors undo long-held assumptions of the animal-human divide."
--Salamishah Tillet, author of Sites of Slavery For much of American history, Black people have been conceived and legally defined as nonpersons, a subgenre of the human. In Being Property Once Myself, prizewinning 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
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