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Problem of Embodiment in Early African American Narrative

Problem of Embodiment in Early African American Narrative

Fishburn, Katherine

Hardcover

Series: Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contempo, Book 183

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0313303592
ISBN13: 9780313303593
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Jun 30 1997
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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