joshua bennett being property once myself

Carefully constructed with a lyrical lilt to its sharp analyses, this book is an important contribution to the emerging space in which black literary studies, animality studies and ecocriticism converge. Joshua Bennett Though Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man (Harvard University Press 2020) is the author’s first scholarly monograph, Joshua Bennett is a familiar name to many of us who read, teach, compose, or follow currents in Black poetry and performance. Being Property Once Myself delves into the literary imagination and ethical concerns that have emerged from this experience. 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 anew.

Joshua bennett being property once myself