Conjugal Union : The Body, the House, and the Black American by Robert F. Reid-Pharr. Portrayal of Afro-Americans in Ante-Bellum Black Literature. Oxford University Press, 1999 First Edition. Race and American Culture Series. Black Studies. Hardcover Format, Fine Condition.

Robert F. Reid - Pharr

Published by Oxford University Press, 1999

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"Conjugal Union" , by Robert F. Reid - Pharr, is a fascinating and challenging scholarly exposition on the portrayal of Afro-Americans in the Black literature of the Ante-Bellum Nineteenth Century; The Afro-American conception of Black Identity for the individual as opposed to the Idea of a Black community within the larger nation. This study includes as topics, author Phyllis Wheatley, Slavery, Abolitionism, Colonialism, Frederick Douglass, Ellen Craft, W. E. B. DuBois, Harriet Wilson, as well as numerous Black-authored works of literature. *************************************** From the dust-jacket write-up : "Robert F. Reid-Pharr argues that during the antebellum period a community of free black northeastern intellectuals sought to establish the stability of a Black American subjectivity by figuring the black body as the necessary antecedent to any intelligible Black American public presence. Reid-Pharr goes on to argue that the fact of the black body's constant and often spectacular display demonstrates an incredible uncertainty as to that body's status. ************************************** "The antebellum black intellectuals were always anxious about how a stable relationship between the black body and the black community might be maintained. Paying particular attention to Black American novels written before the Civil War, the author shows how the household was utilized by these writers to normalize this relationship of body to community such that a person could enter a household as a white and leave it as a black." **************************************** SERIES : Race and American Culture/ TITLE : Conjugal Union - The Body, the House, and the Black American / AUTHOR : Robert F. Reid-Pharr  / IMPRINT : Oxford University Press / PLACE : New York / DATE : 1999  / EDITION : First Edition / NEW HARDCOVER LIST PRICE FROM OXFORD : $105.00 / PHYSICAL DETAILS : Academic publication, issued for the trade; has nine black-and-white illustrations; substantial notes, a considerable Bibliography, and an Index; [viii] + 166 pages; approximately 6" x 9" (octavo); brown boards with title in beige on spine; pictorial dust-jacket. CONDITION . - FINE - EXCEPTIONALLY WELL-PRESERVED. Seller Inventory # 1459

Bibliographic Details

Title: Conjugal Union : The Body, the House, and ...

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Publication Date: 1999

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Edition: 1st Edition