Black Existential Freedom

Black Existential Freedom looks at the ways in which Black cultural productions reflect a constant struggle for freedom and a refusal to surrender to the destructive forces of dehumanization. This book offers a counter-narrative to current Afro-Pessimist theorizations of Blackness that choose the power of death and nihilism over life.

List of contents

Introduction

I: Diasporic Blues

Chapter 1: Black in Blue: Subjectivity, catastrophe, and memory in Guy Deslauriers' The Middle PassageChapter 2: Sing to Be FreeChapter 3: Haiti 2010, Life Arises from the Rubble
II: Come on Children of the Homeland, the Day of Glory has Arrived

Chapter 4: Black in Blue, Red, and WhiteChapter 5: "COMMUNITY" and "COLOR" : Black in Blue White and RedChapter 6: I Remember Therefore I suffer/I Remember Therefore I am
III: I called from the depth
Chapter 7: Human/Non-Human: The Negative Utopia of Sub-Saharan African MigrationChapter 8: The other Nègre: Treatment of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People in Uganda and South Africa
Conclusion

About the author

Nathalie Etoke is associate professor of French and Africana studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her book Melancholia Africana received the Frantz Fanon Book Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association. In 2011, she made a documentary entitled Afro Diasporic French Identities thatexamines how the legacy of slavery and colonization challenges the republican ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity.

Product details

• Authors: Nathalie Etoke
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 18 to 22
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9781538173060
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-7306-0
• No. of pages: 170
• Series: Living Existentialism
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, social and political philosophy, Colonialism and imperialism, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism