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Being Apart Theoretical and Existential Resistance in Africana Literature / LaRose T. Parris.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parris, LaRose.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--African influences.
- American literature.
- 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.
- Caribbean literature (English).
- African literature (English)--Black authors--History and criticism.
- African literature (English).
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (208 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- OCLC:
- 910070626
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