Overview
Explores black feminist writings
Links philosophical and literary pragmatism within African American women’s writing
Traces a literary lineage from the nineteenth century to the Harlem Renaissance
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book charts an interdisciplinary narrative of literary pragmatism and creative democracy across the writings of African American women, from the works of nineteenth-century philosophers to the novels and short stories of Harlem Renaissance authors. The book argues that this critically neglected narrative forms a genealogy of black feminist intersectionality and a major contribution to the development of American pragmatism. Bringing together the philosophical writings of Maria Stewart, Anna Julia Cooper, and Mary Church Terrell and the fictional works of Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston, this text provides a literary pragmatist study of the archetypes, tropes, settings, and modes of resistance that populate the narrative of creative democracy. Above all, this book considers how these philosophers and authors construct democracy as a lived experience that gains meaning not through state institutions but through communities founded on relationships among black women and their shared understandings of culture, knowledge, experience, and rebellion.
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About the author
Gregory Phipps is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Iceland, and author of Henry James and the Philosophy of Literary Pragmatism (2016). His articles have appeared in journals such as African American Review, English Studies in Canada, MELUS, and Studies in the Novel.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Narratives of African American Women's Literary Pragmatism and Creative Democracy
Authors: Gregory Phipps
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01854-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-01853-5Published: 20 November 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40384-3Published: 11 February 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-01854-2Published: 02 November 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 274
Topics: North American Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Pragmatism