Being Apart: Theoretical and Existential Resistance in Africana Literature

by LaRose Parris

In Being Apart, LaRose Parris draws on traditional and radical Western theory to emphasize how nineteenth- and twentieth-century Africana thinkers explored the two principal existential themes of being and freedom prior to existentialism's rise to prominence in postwar European thought. Emphasizing diasporic connections among the works of authors from the United States, the Caribbean, and the African continent, Parris argues that writers such as David...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813938120
• ISBN13: 9780813938127
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher