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Afro-American Culture, Literature, and Social Order, Part 4 of 6
John Sekora and Darwin Turner examine the content and structure of African-American slave narratives of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and explain why these narratives merit scholarly and popular attention. They speak about the distribution of slave narratives, the composition … Continue reading
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Tagged Abolition, African-American literature, Slave narratives
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(1) Søren Kierkegaard; (2) Commentary on Afro-American Slave Narratives
In the cultural and intellectual crosscurrents that flow between Europe and the Americas, the name Søren Kierkegaard is prominent. Mark Taylor discusses Kierkegaard’s interpretation and criticism of nineteenth-century philosophy and religious thought, particularly of Christianity in the form of the Danish … Continue reading
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Tagged Existentialism, Humanities, Philosophy, Slave narratives
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