What We Say, Who We Are - Leopold Senghor, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Philosophy of Language

Informationen zum Autor By Parker English Klappentext In What We Say, Who We Are, Parker English explores the commonality between Leopold Senghor's concept of "negritude" and Zora Neale Hurston's view of "Negro expression." For English, these two concepts emphasize that a person's view of herself is above all dictated by the way in which she talks about herself. Focusing on "performism," English discusses the presentational/representational and externalistic/internalistic facets of this concept and how they relate to the ideas of Senghor and Hurston. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Senghor's Discussion of "Negritude" and Hurston's Discussion of "Negro Expression" Chapter 2: Performism: A View Gleaned from Senghor and from Hurston Chapter 3: Performatives and Reflexivity in Light of Hurston's Ethnography and Fiction Chapter 4: Exchanges of Speech Chapter 5: Speech and Senses of Self in Their Eyes Were Watching God Chapter 6: Performism in the World

Product details

• Authors: Parker English, English Parker
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.10.2009
• EAN: 9780739126516
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-2651-6
• No. of pages: 137
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy of Language, Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, PHILOSOPHY / Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics