Narratives of African American Women's Literary Pragmatism and Creative Democracy

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Phipps, Gregory (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: America-Literatures.; Literature, Modern-19th century.; Pragmatism.; North American Literature.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Nineteenth-Century Philosophical Pragmatism: The Black Maternal Archetype and the Communities of Creative Democracy
• Chapter 3: The Narrative of Creative Democracy in the Harlem Renaissance
• Chapter 4: The Search for Beautiful Experience in Jessie Fauset's Plum Bun
• Chapter 5: Creative Democracy in One Community: Literary Pragmatism in Jessie Fauset's The Chinaberry Tree
• Chapter 6: Breaking Down Creative Democracy: The Cycle of Experience and Truth in Nella Larsen's Quicksand
• Chapter 7: Securing the Archetype and the Community: Irene Redfield's Resistance to Creative Democracy in Nella Larsen's Passing
• Chapter 8: "She Told Them About Her Trips to the Horizon": Creative Democracy in the Short Fiction of Zora Neale Hurston
• Chapter 9: Conclusion. .