Black Well-Being: Health and Selfhood in Antebellum Black Literature

by Andrea Stone

Book Overview

Canadian Association for American Studies Robert K. Martin Book Prize

Analyzing slave narratives, emigration polemics, a murder trial, and black-authored fiction, Andrea Stone highlights the central role physical and mental health and well-being played in antebellum black literary constructions of selfhood. At a time when political and medical theorists emphasized black well-being in their arguments...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813069459
• ISBN13: 9780813069456
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"