LEADER 04452nam 2200757 450 001 9910812430303321 005 20220205012810.0 010 $a0-8122-9199-9 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812291995 035 $a(CKB)3710000000519538 035 $a(EBL)4321860 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001562737 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16212657 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001562737 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)12074555 035 $a(PQKB)10557015 035 $a(OCoLC)930300920 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse46657 035 $a(DE-B1597)452760 035 $a(OCoLC)1013937808 035 $a(OCoLC)952807008 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812291995 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4321860 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000519538 100 $a20160210h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe strangers book $ethe human of African American literature /$fLloyd Pratt 210 1$aPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d2016. 210 4$d©2016 215 $a1 online resource (199 p.) 225 1 $aHaney Foundation Series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8122-4768-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction. Print and the Human --$tChapter 1. The Making of Self-Evidence --$tChapter 2. Frederick Douglass's Stranger-With-Thee --$tChapter 3. Les Apôtres de la Littérature and Les Cenelles --$tChapter 4. The Abundant Black Past --$tChapter 5. How to Read a Strangers Book --$tEpilogue. Stranger Literature --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aThe Strangers Book explores how various nineteenth-century African American writers radically reframed the terms of humanism by redefining what it meant to be a stranger. Rejecting the idea that humans have easy access to a common reserve of experiences and emotions, they countered the notion that a person can use a supposed knowledge of human nature to claim full understanding of any other person's life. Instead they posited that being a stranger, unknown and unknowable, was an essential part of the human condition. Affirming the unknown and unknowable differences between people, as individuals and in groups, laid the groundwork for an ethical and democratic society in which all persons could find a place. If everyone is a stranger, then no individual or class can lay claim to the characteristics that define who gets to be a human in political and public arenas. Lloyd Pratt focuses on nineteenth-century African American writing and publishing venues and practices such as the Colored National Convention movement and literary societies in Nantucket and New Orleans. Examining the writing of Frederick Douglass in tandem with that of the francophone free men of color who published the first anthology of African American poetry in 1845, he contends these authors were never interested in petitioning whites for sympathy or for recognition of their humanity. Instead, they presented a moral imperative to develop practices of stranger humanism in order to forge personal and political connections based on mutually acknowledged and always evolving differences. 410 0$aHaney Foundation series. 606 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican Americans$xRace identity$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aStrangers in literature 606 $aBlack people in literature 606 $aHuman beings in literature 610 $aAfrican Studies. 610 $aAfrican-American Studies. 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xRace identity$xHistory 615 0$aStrangers in literature. 615 0$aBlack people in literature. 615 0$aHuman beings in literature. 676 $a810.9/896073 700 $aPratt$b Lloyd$f1967-$01715516 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812430303321 996 $aThe strangers book$94110199 997 $aUNINA