The Strangers Book: The Human of African American Literature

by Lloyd Pratt

Book Overview

The Strangers Book explores how various nineteenth-century African American writers radically reframed the terms of humanism by redefining what it meant to be a stranger. Rejecting the idea that humans have easy access to a common reserve of experiences and emotions, they countered the notion that a person can use a supposed knowledge of human nature to claim full understanding of any other person's life. Instead they posited that being...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081224768X
• ISBN13: 9780812247688
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"