Black Well-Being: Health and Selfhood in Antebellum Black Literature by Andrea Stone
Black Well-Being: Health and Selfhood in Antebellum Black Literature

Andrea Stone

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

Andrea Stone

238 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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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 ti...

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