Thinghood, Ethics, and Black Material Culture: Up from Chattels

by Sandy Alexandre

This study looks at the role that fictional and actual material things play in black-American literature and culture. The book analyzes cultural products ranging from fictional literary narratives and black memorabilia to black inventions in order to glean an ethics from the transition of enslaved black people being owned as things to their condition as free blacks who own, curate, and patent material things themselves. It explores the ethical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138934755
• ISBN13: 9781138934757
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 228 Pages