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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788285103321

Autore

Parris LaRose

Titolo

Being Apart : Theoretical and Existential Resistance in Africana Literature / / LaRose T. Parris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2015

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2015

©2015

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 pages)

Disciplina

820.9/96

Soggetti

American literature - African influences

Existentialism in literature

Passive resistance in literature

Pan-Africanism in literature

African diaspora in literature

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

Caribbean literature (English) - Black authors - History and criticism

African literature (English) - Black authors - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Being apart: the enlightenment, scientific racism and chattel slavery -- W. E. B. Du Bois and C. L. R. James's African diasporic -- Proletariat -- Frantz Fanon: existentialist, dialectician, and Revolutionary -- Kamau Brathwaite's nation language theory: sound and rememory in the Americas.