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The Minoritarian and Black Reason : A Philosophico-Literary Investigation.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Odhiambo, D. Nandi.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Race in literature.
Black people in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Africans in literature.
Black people--Race identity.
Black people.
Racism in language.
Race--Philosophy.
Race.
Difference (Philosophy).
Physical Description:
1 online resource (125 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Other Title:
Minoritarian and Black Reason
Place of Publication:
Lanham : Lexington Books, 2021.
Summary:
The Minoritarian and Black Reason: A Philosophico-Literary Investigation looks at philosophical texts and novels from the early modern and modern periods to examine the problem of representational language, the Black-figure, and the imagined blackness that willfully looks away from the African presence.
Contents:
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: What Is the Minoritarian Method?
Dogmatic Image of Thought
Thought-without-an-Image
The Minoritarian Language
Personal/Political
How Does This Fugitive Method Integrate the Personal with the Socio-Political?
Collective Value
"A Hunger Artist"
Notes
Chapter 2: Correspondence and Representation in the Majoritarian
Relations of Ideas and Matters of Fact
Chapter 3: Phenomenology and the Minoritarian
Edmund Husserl and James Joyce
Martin Heidegger and Virginia Woolf
Emmanuel Levinas and the Minoritarian
Note
Chapter 4: James Baldwin's Another Country as an Abstract Machine
Richard Wright and James Baldwin on Protest Literature
Line of Flight
Flight of Death
Rising Action
Mind-in-Flight
Protest Literature
Chiasmus or Repetition
Difference
Chapter 5: House of Hunger, Dambudzo Marechera
Phantasm
The House of Hunger
Simulacra
Actual Entities
Conclusion
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
About the Author.
Notes:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
1-7936-0396-0
OCLC:
1243032589

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