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 couldenter 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.

************************************** The antebellum black intellectuals were always anxious aboutÂ how a stable relationship between the black body and the black community might be maintained. 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. 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. DuBois, Harriet Wilson, as well as numerous Black-authored works of literature.

This study includes as topics, author Phyllis Wheatley, Slavery, Abolitionism, Colonialism, Frederick Douglass, Elen Craft, W. 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.

Kara Walker by Robert F. Reid-Pharr