Narratives of African American Women's Literary Pragmatism and Creative Democracy

ISBN-13: 9783030403843 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 274 str.

Gregory Phipps

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

Gregory Phipps is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Iceland, and author of Henry James and the Philosophy of Literary Pragmatism (2016). His articles have appeared in journals such as African American Review, English Studies in Canada, MELUS, and Studies in the Novel.