Narratives of African American Women's Literary Pragmatism and Creative Democracy [electronic resource] / by Gregory Phipps.

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Narratives of African American Women's Literary Pragmatism and Creative Democracy [electronic resource] / by Gregory Phipps.

9783030018542
3030018547
9783030018535
3030018539

Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.

English

1 online resource (XII, 274 pages) : online resource

10.1007/978-3-030-01854-2. doi

PN843-PN846

809.7

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. .

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