Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction or Looking for the Fugitive Life in Social Death -- Part 1. Fugitivity against the Border: Afro-Pessimism, Black Feminist Fugitive Thought, and the Border to Social Death -- Part 2. Practices of Flight: Captivity and Fugitivity in Black American Literature -- Fugitive Conclusions or the Inescapability of Captivity, Flight, and Fugitive Narration -- Works Cited -- Acknowledgements -- Index
This book tests the limits of fugitivity as a concept in recent Black feminist and Afro-pessimist thought. It follows the conceptual travels of confinement and flight through three major Black writing traditions in North America from the 1840s to the early 21st century. Cultural analysis is the basic methodological approach and recent concepts of captivity and fugitivity in Afro-pessimist and Black feminist theory form the theoretical framework.
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In English.
9783110761030
USA. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Black American Literature, Fugitive Narration, Borders.