{"product_id":"being-property-once-myself-joshua-bennett-9780674980303","title":"Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA prizewinning poet argues that Blackness acts as the caesura between human and nonhuman, man and animal.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThroughout US history, Black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons, a subgenre of the human. \u003ci\u003eBeing Property Once Myself\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJoshua 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 anti-Blackness in discourses surrounding the environment and animals. \u003ci\u003eBeing Property Once Myself\u003c\/i\u003e is an incisive work of literary criticism and a close reading of undertheorized notions of dehumanization and the Anthropocene.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joshua Bennett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674980301\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674980303\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Belknap Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/12\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.70w x 0.80d","brand":"Joshua Bennett","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43995220803839,"sku":"9780674980303","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_52f2d68a-bffc-404f-9a7d-5a5e5e523054.jpg?v=1683334549","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/being-property-once-myself-joshua-bennett-9780674980303","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}