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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825455703321

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

Edizione

[1st ed.]

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Charting the rise of Eurocentrism through a genealogy of eighteenth-century Enlightenment racial science while foregrounding the lived Africana experience of racism in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Parris shows that racist ideology is intrinsic to modern Western thought rather than being an ideological aberration.