04452nam 2200757 450 991081243030332120220205012810.00-8122-9199-910.9783/9780812291995(CKB)3710000000519538(EBL)4321860(SSID)ssj0001562737(PQKBManifestationID)16212657(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001562737(PQKBWorkID)12074555(PQKB)10557015(OCoLC)930300920(MdBmJHUP)muse46657(DE-B1597)452760(OCoLC)1013937808(OCoLC)952807008(DE-B1597)9780812291995(MiAaPQ)EBC4321860(EXLCZ)99371000000051953820160210h20162016 uy 0engur|nu---|u||utxtccrThe strangers book the human of African American literature /Lloyd PrattPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :University of Pennsylvania Press,2016.©20161 online resource (199 p.)Haney Foundation SeriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8122-4768-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Preface --Introduction. Print and the Human --Chapter 1. The Making of Self-Evidence --Chapter 2. Frederick Douglass's Stranger-With-Thee --Chapter 3. Les Apôtres de la Littérature and Les Cenelles --Chapter 4. The Abundant Black Past --Chapter 5. How to Read a Strangers Book --Epilogue. Stranger Literature --Notes --Bibliography --Index --AcknowledgmentsThe Strangers Book explores how various nineteenth-century African American writers radically reframed the terms of humanism by redefining what it meant to be a stranger. Rejecting the idea that humans have easy access to a common reserve of experiences and emotions, they countered the notion that a person can use a supposed knowledge of human nature to claim full understanding of any other person's life. Instead they posited that being a stranger, unknown and unknowable, was an essential part of the human condition. Affirming the unknown and unknowable differences between people, as individuals and in groups, laid the groundwork for an ethical and democratic society in which all persons could find a place. If everyone is a stranger, then no individual or class can lay claim to the characteristics that define who gets to be a human in political and public arenas. Lloyd Pratt focuses on nineteenth-century African American writing and publishing venues and practices such as the Colored National Convention movement and literary societies in Nantucket and New Orleans. Examining the writing of Frederick Douglass in tandem with that of the francophone free men of color who published the first anthology of African American poetry in 1845, he contends these authors were never interested in petitioning whites for sympathy or for recognition of their humanity. Instead, they presented a moral imperative to develop practices of stranger humanism in order to forge personal and political connections based on mutually acknowledged and always evolving differences.Haney Foundation series.American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAmerican literature19th centuryHistory and criticismAfrican AmericansRace identityHistory19th centuryStrangers in literatureBlack people in literatureHuman beings in literatureAfrican Studies.African-American Studies.Cultural Studies.Literature.American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.African AmericansRace identityHistoryStrangers in literature.Black people in literature.Human beings in literature.810.9/896073Pratt Lloyd1967-1715516MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812430303321The strangers book4110199UNINA