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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.
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