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

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Phipps, Gregory (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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. .