Katherine Fishburn

Gebundenes Buch

Problem of Embodiment in Early African American Narrative

Beschreibung

Offering a revolutionary way of reading 19th-century slave narratives, Fishburn seeks to recover the philosophical foundations of African American literature. Underlying slave narrative is an expression of the problem of physical embodiment; that is, the dualistic thinking of the mind-body division. Fishburn's work uncovers the tension between needing to acknowledge the fact of human embodiment and wishing to overcome its consequences in a racist society. One of the strongest points made by this pioneering work is the controversial claim that these slave narratives offer one of the most telling, if largely overlooked, pre-Heideggerian critiques of liberal humanism ever attempted in the West.

Autor

KATHERINE FISHBURN is Professor of English at Michigan State University, where she teaches courses in African American literature, twentieth-century literature, women's literature, and cultural studies. She is author of a book on Richard Wright, a monograph on Doris Lessing, and three Greenwood Press titles: Reading Buchi Emecheta: Cross-Cultural Conversations (1995), The Unexpected Universe of Doris Lessing: A Study in Narrative Technique (1985), and Women in Popular Culture: A Reference Guide (1982).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 505g
• ISBN-13: 9780313303593
• ISBN-10: 0313303592
• Artikelnr.: 25568425