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Existentialist thought in African American literature before 1940 /

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Existentialist thought in African American literature before 1940 /

[Book]

edited by Melvin G. Hill.

Lanham, Maryland :

Lexington Books,

[2016]

©2016

xxii, 87 pages ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the legacy of existentialism in African American literature before 1940 / Melvin G. Hill -- Morality, art, and the self: existentialism in Frederick Douglass and Søren Kierkegaard / Timothy Golden -- I'm not here: existential acts in nineteenth-century African American women's narrative / Jeannine King -- Sutton E. Griggs's existential vision in Imperium in imperio: the new Negro / Melvin G. Hill -- Existential authenticity in early 20th century African-American passing narratives / Renee Barlow -- "Clare Kendry cared nothing for the race. She only belonged to it": the intersectional bad faith of race and gender in Nella Larsen's passing / Chase Dimock.

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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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Existentialist thought in African American literature before 1940

9781498514811

African American authors.

American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.

American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

Existentialism in literature.

Identity (Psychology) in literature.

African American authors.

American literature.

Amerikanisches Englisch

Existentialism in literature.

Existenzphilosophie

Identität

Identity (Psychology) in literature.

Literatur

Schwarze

USA

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Hill, Melvin G.

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[Book]

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