Being Apart : Theoretical and Existential Resistance in Africana Literature.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (208 pages)
Charting the rise of Eurocentrism through a genealogy of eighteenth-century Enlightenment racial science while foregrounding the lived Africana experience of racism in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Parris shows that racist ideology is intrinsic to modern Western thought rather than being an ideological aberration.
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African literature (English)--Black authors--History and criticism. Caribbean literature (English)--Black authors--History and criticism. American literature--African American authors--History and criticism. African diaspora in literature. Pan-Africanism in literature. Passive resistance in literature. Existentialism in literature. American literature--African influences.