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" Existentialist thought in African American literature before 1940 / "
edited by Melvin G. Hill.
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851890
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Existentialist thought in African American literature before 1940 /\ edited by Melvin G. Hill.
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Lanham, Maryland :: Lexington Books,, [2016]
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, ©2016
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xxii, 87 pages ;; 24 cm
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1498514804
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: 9781498514804
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: 9781498514828
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1498514812
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9781498514811
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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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African American authors.
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American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Existentialism in literature.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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African American authors.
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American literature.
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Amerikanisches Englisch
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Existentialism in literature.
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Existenzphilosophie
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Identität
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Literatur
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Schwarze
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USA
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| Dewey Classification
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810.9/896073
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PS153.N5E95 2016
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Hill, Melvin G.
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