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The Black humanist tradition in anti-racist literaturea fragile hope /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Black humanist tradition in anti-racist literatureby Alexandra Hartmann.
Reminder of title:	a fragile hope /
Author:	Hartmann, Alexandra.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2023.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 211 p.) :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	HumanismHistory20th century.United States
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20947-5
ISBN:	9783031209475$q(electronic bk.)

The Black humanist tradition in anti-racist literaturea fragile hope /
Hartmann, Alexandra.

The Black humanist tradition in anti-racist literaturea fragile hope /[electronic resource] :by Alexandra Hartmann. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2023. - 1 online resource (viii, 211 p.) :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Studies in humanism and atheism,2634-6664. - Studies in humanism and atheism..

1. Introduction -- 2. Embodiment, Agency, and Conceptions of Hope in Black Humanist Thought Embodied Subjectivity and Embodied Blackness -- 3. Self-Reliance Towards Deep Democracy: Theorizing Racial Embodiment in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man -- 4. The (Im)Possibility of Interracial Relationships in John A. Williams' Night Song -- 5. Subjectivities between Structure and Agency: Enlightenment Humanism, Gendered Trauma, and Community in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- 6. Precarity, Mourning, and Notes of Consolation in Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing -- 7. Epilogue: Writing Beyond Pessimism.

This book presents an intellectual history and theoretical exploration of black humanism since the civil rights era. Humanism is a human-centered approach to life that considers human beings to be responsible for the world and its course of history. Both the heavily theistic climate in the United States as well as the dominance of the Black Church are responsible for black humanism's existence in virtual oblivion. For those who believe the world to be one without supernatural interventions, human action matters greatly and is the only possible mode for change. Humanists are thus committed to promoting the public good through human effort rather than through faith. Black humanism originates from the lived experiences of African Americans in a white hegemonic society. Viewed from this perspective, black humanist cultural expressions are a continuous push to imagine and make room for alternative life options in a racist society. Alexandra Hartmann counters religion's hegemonic grasp and uncovers black humanism as a small yet significant tradition in recent African American culture and cultural politics by studying its impact on African American literature and the ensuing anti-racist potentials. The book demonstrates that black humanism regards subjectivity as embodied and is thus a worldview that is characterized by a fragile hope regarding the possibility of progress - racial and otherwise - in the country.

ISBN: 9783031209475$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-20947-5doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

945009
Humanism
--History--United States--20th century.

LC Class. No.: B821

Dewey Class. No.: 144

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