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  • The Delectable Negro

    Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture

    by Vincent Woodard, Dwight McBride, Justin A Joyce, E. Patrick Johnson ...
    Series Book 34 - Sexual Cultures
    A groundbreaking study of the connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in American literature and US slave culture.Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Scenes of Subjection

    Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Saidiya Hartman, Marisa J. Fuentes, Sarah Haley, Cameron Rowland, Torkwase Dyson ...
    The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated.Saidiya Hartman has been praised as “one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers” (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and “a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people outside the academy” (Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker). In ... Read more

    $20.59 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Solitude of Self

    Thinking About Elizabeth Cady Stanton

    by Vivian Gornick ...
    "Brings alive . . . Elizabeth Cady Stanton['s] brilliance . . . and prescient understanding of the centrality of the 'woman question' to American democracy." —Christine Stansell, author of American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New CenturyElizabeth Cady Stanton—along with her comrade-in-arms, Susan B. Anthony—was one of the most important leaders of the movement to gain ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Disaffected

    The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Xine Yao ...
    Series series Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
    In Disaffected Xine Yao explores the racial and sexual politics of unfeeling—affects that are not recognized as feeling—as a means of survival and refusal in nineteenth-century America. She positions unfeeling beyond sentimentalism's paradigm of universal feeling. Yao traces how works by Herman Melville, Martin R. Delany, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Sui Sin Far ... Read more

    $31.89 CAD

  • Writing Deafness

    The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

    by Christopher Krentz ...
    Taking an original approach to American literature, Christopher Krentz examines nineteenth-century writing from a new angle: that of deafness, which he shows to have surprising importance in identity formation. The rise of deaf education during this period made deaf people much more visible in American society. Krentz demonstrates that deaf and hearing authors used writing to explore their ... Read more

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  • Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America

    by Nancy Isenberg ...
    Series series Gender and American Culture
    With this book, Nancy Isenberg illuminates the origins of the women’s rights movement. Rather than herald the singular achievements of the 1848 Seneca Falls convention, she examines the confluence of events and ideas — before and after 1848 — that, in her view, marked the real birth of feminism. Drawing on a wide range of sources, she demonstrates that women’s rights activists of the antebellum ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • The Color of Sex

    Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy

    by Mason Stokes, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    In The Color of Sex Mason Stokes offers new ways of thinking about whiteness by exploring its surprisingly ambivalent partnership with heterosexuality. Stokes examines a wide range of white-supremacist American texts written and produced between 1852 and 1915—literary romances, dime novels, religious and scientific tracts, film—and exposes whiteness as a tangled network of racial and sexual desire ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Engendering Blackness

    Slavery and the Ontology of Sexual Violence

    by Patrice D. Douglass ...
    Series series Inventions: Black Philosophy, Politics, Aesthetics
    In this incisive new book, Patrice D. Douglass interrogates the relationship between sexual violence and modern racial slavery and finds it not only inseverable but also fundamental to the structural predicaments facing Blackness in the present. Douglass contends that the sexual violability of slaves is often misappropriated by frameworks on sexual violence that privilege its occurrence as a ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Imagining Equality in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

    by Kerry Larson ...
    Series Book 157 - Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
    The theme of inequality has often dominated academic criticism, which has been concerned with identifying, analyzing, and demystifying various regimes of power and the illicit hierarchies upon which they are built. Studies of the United States in the nineteenth century have followed this trend in focusing on slavery, women's writing, and working-class activism. Kerry Larson advocates the ... Read more

    $46.39 CAD