02797nam 2200577Ia 450 991078635590332120220207172809.01-4616-3468-7(CKB)2670000000276234(EBL)1061142(OCoLC)845247159(SSID)ssj0000757281(PQKBManifestationID)12333254(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000757281(PQKBWorkID)10754132(PQKB)11426587(MiAaPQ)EBC1061142(Au-PeEL)EBL1061142(CaPaEBR)ebr10618547(EXLCZ)99267000000027623420090714d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWhat we say, who we are[electronic resource] Leopold Senghor, Zora Neale Hurston, and the philosophy of language /Parker EnglishLanham, Md. Lexington Booksc20101 online resource (148 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7391-2651-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-130) and index.Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Senghor's Discussion of ""Negritude"" and Hurston's Discussion of ""Negro Expression""; Chapter 2: Performism: A View Gleaned from Senghor and from Hurston; Chapter 3: Performatives and Reflexivity in Light of Hurston's Ethnography and Fiction; Chapter 4: Exchanges of Speech; Chapter 5: Speech and Senses of Self in Their Eyes Were Watching God; Chapter 6: Performism in the World; Works Cited; Index; About the AuthorIn What We Say, Who We Are, Parker English explores the commonality between Leopold Senghor's concept of ""negritude"" and Zora Neale Hurston's view of ""Negro expression."" For English, these two concepts emphasize that a person's view of herself is above all dictated by the way in which she talks about herself. Focusing on ""performism,"" English discusses the presentational/representational and externalistic/internalistic facets of this concept and how they relate to the ideas of Senghor and Hurston.Language and languages in literatureSpeech in literatureEthnology in literatureBlack peopleLanguagesLanguage and languages in literature.Speech in literature.Ethnology in literature.Black peopleLanguages.841/.914English Parker1570010MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786355903321What we say, who we are3843355UNINA