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Existentialist Thought in African American Literature Before 1940
is the first collection of its kind to break new ground in arguing
that long before its classification by Jean-Paul Sartre, African
American literature embodied existentialist thought. To make its
case, this daring book dissects eight notable texts: Frederick
Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) and
My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), Sojourner Truth's Ain't I A Woman
(1861), Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl
(1861), Sutton E. Griggs's Imperium in Imperio (1899), James Weldon
Johnson's Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912), and Nella
Larsen's Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929). It explores and
addresses a wide range of complex philosophical concepts such as:
authenticity, potentiality-for-authentic living, bad faith, and
existentialism from the Christian point of view. The use of
interdisciplinary studies such as gender studies, queer studies,
Christian ethics, mixed-race studies, and existentialism, allows
the authors within this book to lend unique perspectives in
examining selected African American literary works.
Essays showcasing Ali and Nino as particularly topical for today's
readers both in and out of the classroom, and providing a number of
diverse approaches to it. Ali and Nino is a novel published in
German in 1937 under the alias "Kurban Said," a love story between
a Muslim man and a Christian woman set in Baku, Azerbaijan, during
World War I and the country's brief independence. Itwas a major
success, translated into several other languages, but was forgotten
by the end of World War II. Recent research by the journalist Tom
Reiss has revealed the identity of the author as Lev/Leo Nussimbaum
(1905-1942), aJewish man born in Baku who converted to Islam,
worked as a journalist in Berlin, and died forgotten in exile.
Reiss's discovery has spurred new interest in the novel, as has the
fact that the book prefigures today's perceived conflicts between
East and West or Islam and Christianity, but also suggests a more
peaceful model of intercultural living in multiethnic Baku's
melting pot of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. The present volume
collects twelve newessays on different aspects of the text by
scholars from a variety of disciplines and cultural backgrounds. It
is intended to showcase the suitability of Ali and Nino for
inclusion in a curriculum focused on German, world literature, or
area studies, and to suggest a variety of approaches to the novel
while also appealing to its fans. Contributors: Sara
Abdoullah-Zadeh, Cori Crane, Chase Dimock, Christine Rapp
Dombrowski, Elizabeth WeberEdwards, Anja Haensch, Kamaal Haque,
Lisabeth Hock, Ruchama Johnston-Bloom, Carl Niekerk, Elke
Pfitzinger, Soraya Saatchi, Daniel Schreiner, Azade Seyhan. Carl
Niekerk is Professor of German with affiliate appointmentsin
French, Comparative and World Literature, and Jewish Studies at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Cori Crane is Associate
Professor of the Practice and Director of the Language Program in
the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature at Duke
University.
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