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Would Frederick Douglass be an Afropessimist? Re-Reading a Slave's Narratives into Current Debates on Race and Slavery
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Would Frederick Douglass be an Afropessimist? Re-Reading a Slave's Narratives into Current Debates on Race and Slavery
Yazar:
Klarman, Brian Jacob, author.
ISBN:
9780438001541
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1 electronic resource (101 pages)
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Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 57-06M(E).
Advisors: Donald E. Pease Committee members: Julia Rabig; George Yancy.
Özet:
How do modern theories of slavery account for the lived experiences of chattel slaves, in the United States? While answering such a question in its entirety is near impossible, this thesis offers one reading that may begin to reveal the promise of such an intervention. With an ever-increasing philosophical debate about the connection between slavery and Blackness to draw upon, this thesis settles on the question of what one former slave, Frederick Douglass, would have thought about one theory of slavery, Afropessimism.
Taking up Douglass' narratives, speeches, and writings, this project attempts to re-read the pivotal texts and interviews of Afropessimism from his perspective. Using Douglass' outlook as a guiding principle, supplemented when appropriate with current theorists of race whose works can help articulate Douglass' concerns to a modern audience, core concepts in Afropessimism--including, but not limited to, the definition of slavery, the ethics of compromise, the necessity of pessimism, and the structure of narrative--are problematized.
While this thesis neither evaluates every slave narrative nor comprehensively parses through the oeuvre of philosophical theories of slavery, my hope is that this piece will facilitate the continuation of projects on the intersections between the two fields. As such, I hope that you find this project useful in historicizing the theories of slavery while simultaneously theorizing slavery's history.
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School code: 0059
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