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