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Existentialist Thought in African American Literature Before 1940.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2015Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (111 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498514811
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Existentialist Thought in African American Literature Before 1940DDC classification:
  • 810.9/896073
LOC classification:
  • PS153.N5E95 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Morality, Art, and the Self -- Chapter Two: I'm Not Here: Existential Acts in Nineteenth-Century African American Women's Narrative -- Chapter Three: Sutton E. Griggs's Existential Vision in Imperium in Imperio: The New Negro -- Chapter Four: Existential Authenticity in Early Twentieth-Century African American Passing Narratives -- Chapter Five: "Clare Kendry Cared Nothing for the Race. She Only Belonged to It" -- Index -- About the Contributors.
Summary: Existentialist Thought in African American Literature before 1940 consciously acknowledges the existential currents that are profoundly embedded in African American literature, establishing a rich legacy of existentialist thought that predates Richard Wright's existential birth.This collection fuses together discussions of existentialist thought and African American literature in an effort to rethink and even re-frame African American literary traditions, showing that several texts, and even most canonical texts, lack a systematic study through an existential lens.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Morality, Art, and the Self -- Chapter Two: I'm Not Here: Existential Acts in Nineteenth-Century African American Women's Narrative -- Chapter Three: Sutton E. Griggs's Existential Vision in Imperium in Imperio: The New Negro -- Chapter Four: Existential Authenticity in Early Twentieth-Century African American Passing Narratives -- Chapter Five: "Clare Kendry Cared Nothing for the Race. She Only Belonged to It" -- Index -- About the Contributors.

Existentialist Thought in African American Literature before 1940 consciously acknowledges the existential currents that are profoundly embedded in African American literature, establishing a rich legacy of existentialist thought that predates Richard Wright's existential birth.This collection fuses together discussions of existentialist thought and African American literature in an effort to rethink and even re-frame African American literary traditions, showing that several texts, and even most canonical texts, lack a systematic study through an existential lens.

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