Being Apart : Theoretical and Existential Resistance in Africana Literature / / LaRose T. Parris

• Autore: Parris LaRose
• Pubblicazione: 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
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Being Apart
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825455703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II