{"product_id":"existentialist-thought-in-african-american-literature-before-1940-9781498514804","title":"Existentialist Thought in African American Literature before 1940","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Renee Barlow | Chase Dimock | Timothy Golden\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Lexington Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - African American\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExistentialist 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47595836997783,"sku":"9781498514804","price":10148.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781498514804.webp?v=1774991413","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/existentialist-thought-in-african-american-literature-before-1940-9781498514804","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}