Existentialist Thought in African American Literature before 1940 Hardback
Edited by Melvin G. Hill
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Existentialist Thought in African American Literature Before 1940 is the first collection of its kind to break new ground in arguing that long before its classification by Jean-Paul Sartre, African American literature embodied existentialist thought.
To make its case, this daring book dissects eight notable texts: Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) and My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), Sojourner Truth’s Ain’t I A Woman (1861), Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl (1861), Sutton E.
Griggs’s Imperium in Imperio (1899), James Weldon Johnson’s Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912), and Nella Larsen’s Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929).
It explores and addresses a wide range of complex philosophical concepts such as: authenticity, potentiality-for-authentic living, bad faith, and existentialism from the Christian point of view.
The use of interdisciplinary studies such as gender studies, queer studies, Christian ethics, mixed-race studies, and existentialism, allows the authors within this book to lend unique perspectives in examining selected African American literary works.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:110 pages
- Publisher:Lexington Books
- Publication Date:07/12/2015
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- ISBN:9781498514804
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:110 pages
- Publisher:Lexington Books
- Publication Date:07/12/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9781498514804