| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 274 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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African American women authors -- History.
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Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900. |
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Western philosophy, from c 1900. |
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Literature: history & criticism. |
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Philosophy -- Movements -- Pragmatism. |
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Literary Criticism -- American -- General. |
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African American women authors |
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American literature |
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American literature -- African American authors |
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American literature -- Women authors |
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1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Phipps, Gregory. Narratives of African American women's literary pragmatism and creative democracy. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018] 3030018539 9783030018535 (OCoLC)1051680450 |
| ISBN |
3030018547 (electronic book) |
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3030018539 |
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9783030018535 |
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9783030018542 (electronic bk.) |
| Standard No. |
9783030018535 |
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