Lexington Books
Pages: 108
Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-4985-1480-4 • Hardback • December 2015 • $101.00 • (£78.00)
978-1-4985-1482-8 • Paperback • September 2017 • $50.99 • (£39.00)
978-1-4985-1481-1 • eBook • December 2015 • $48.00 • (£37.00)
Melvin Hill is associate professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Martin.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Legacy of Existentialism in African American Literature Before 1940
Melvin Hill
Chapter 1: Morality, Art, and the Self: Existentialism in Frederick Douglass and Søren Kierkegaard
Timothy Golden
Chapter 2: I’m Not Here: Existential Acts in 19th Century African American Women’s Narrative
Jeannine King
Chapter 3: Sutton E. Griggs’s Existential Vision in Imperium in Imperio: The New Negro
Melvin G. Hill
Chapter 4: Existential Authenticity in Early 20th Century African-American Passing Narratives
Renee Barlow
Chapter 5: “Clare Kendry Cared Nothing For the Race. She Only Belonged to It”: The Intersectional Bad Faith of Race and Gender in Nella Larsen’s Passing
Chase Dimock
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