Book review: being property once myself: blackness and the end of man by joshua bennett

Hiraide, Lydia Ayame (2021) Book review: being property once myself: blackness and the end of man by joshua bennett. LSE Review of Books (08 Jan 2021). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

In Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man, Joshua Bennett explores how African American writers have forged a tradition that works through the figure of the non-human animal in order to assert and enact radical challenges to oppressive structures, contesting the violence of anthropocentrism and antiblackness and providing tools for conceiving of interspecies relationships ... Continued

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/
Additional Information:	© 2021 The Author(s)
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General)
Date Deposited:	01 Mar 2021 13:03
Last Modified:	11 Sep 2025 13:07
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/108798

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