Description
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.
Author: Nathalie Etoke
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 11/04/2022
Pages: 170
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781538173060
ISBN10: 1538173069
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Movements | Existentialism
- Philosophy | Political
- Political Science | Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
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 that examines how the legacy of slavery and colonization challenges the republican ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity.