Narratives of African American Women's Literary Pragmatism and Creative Democracy. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Gregory Phipps.
• Authors: Phipps, Gregory
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (274 pages)
• Subjects: Literature; Philosophy -- Movements -- Pragmatism; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900; Western philosophy, from c 1900; America-Literatures; Literature, Modern-19th century; Pragmatism; Literary Criticism -- American -- General; Literature: history & criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030018542
• Related ISBNs: 9783030018535
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