LEADER 04101nam 22006375 450 001 9910725096603321 005 20251008160430.0 010 $a9783031209475$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031209468 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-20947-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7248893 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7248893 035 $a(OCoLC)1379465303 035 $a(OCoLC)1380466056 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-20947-5 035 $a(BIP)085922392 035 $a(CKB)26637873600041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9926637873600041 100 $a20230513d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Black Humanist Tradition in Anti-Racist Literature $eA Fragile Hope /$fby Alexandra Hartmann 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (218 pages) 225 1 $aStudies in Humanism and Atheism,$x2634-6664 311 08$aPrint version: Hartmann, Alexandra The Black Humanist Tradition in Anti-Racist Literature Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031209468 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. Embodiment, Agency, and Conceptions of Hope in Black Humanist Thought Embodied Subjectivity and Embodied Blackness -- 3. Self-Reliance Towards Deep Democracy: Theorizing Racial Embodiment in Ralph Ellison?s Invisible Man -- 4. The (Im)Possibility of Interracial Relationships in John A. Williams? Night Song -- 5. Subjectivities between Structure and Agency: Enlightenment Humanism, Gendered Trauma, and Community in Toni Morrison?s Beloved -- 6. Precarity, Mourning, and Notes of Consolation in Jesmyn Ward?s Sing, Unburied, Sing -- 7. Epilogue: Writing Beyond Pessimism. 330 $aThis book presents an intellectual history and theoretical exploration of black humanism since the civil rights era. Humanism is a human-centered approach to life that considers human beings to be responsible for the world and its course of history. Both the heavily theistic climate in the United States as well as the dominance of the Black Church are responsible for black humanism?s existence in virtual oblivion. For those who believe the world to be one without supernatural interventions, human action matters greatly and is the only possible mode for change. Humanists are thus committed to promoting the public good through human effort rather than through faith. Black humanism originates from the lived experiences of African Americans in a white hegemonic society. Viewed from this perspective, black humanist cultural expressions are a continuous push to imagine and make room for alternative life options in a racist society. Alexandra Hartmann counters religion?s hegemonic grasp and uncovers black humanism as a small yet significant tradition in recent African American culture and cultural politics by studying its impact on African American literature and the ensuing anti-racist potentials. The book demonstrates that black humanism regards subjectivity as embodied and is thus a worldview that is characterized by a fragile hope regarding the possibility of progress ? racial and otherwise ? in the country. 410 0$aStudies in Humanism and Atheism,$x2634-6664 606 $aBlack theology 606 $aAfrican Americans 606 $aCulture 606 $aLiterature$xAesthetics 606 $aBlack Theology 606 $aAfrican American Culture 606 $aLiterary Aesthetics 615 0$aBlack theology. 615 0$aAfrican Americans. 615 0$aCulture. 615 0$aLiterature$xAesthetics. 615 14$aBlack Theology. 615 24$aAfrican American Culture. 615 24$aLiterary Aesthetics. 676 $a144 676 $a144 700 $aHartmann$b Alexandra$01358229 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910725096603321 996 $aThe Black Humanist Tradition in Anti-Racist Literature$93367001 997 $aUNINA