The black border and fugitive narration in Black American literature / / Paula von Gleich.

• Superior document: American frictions ; Volume 4
• VerfasserIn: Gleich, Paula von,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin, Germany : : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: American frictions ; Volume 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (308 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

This book tests the limits of fugitivity as a concept in recent Black feminist and Afro-pessimist thought. It follows the conceptual travels of confinement and flight through three major Black writing traditions in North America from the 1840s to the early 21st century. Cultural analysis is the basic methodological approach and recent concepts of captivity and fugitivity in Afro-pessimist and Black feminist theory form the theoretical framework.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction or Looking for the Fugitive Life in Social Death -- Part 1. Fugitivity against the Border: Afro-Pessimism, Black Feminist Fugitive Thought, and the Border to Social Death -- Part 2. Practices of Flight: Captivity and Fugitivity in Black American Literature -- Fugitive Conclusions or the Inescapability of Captivity, Flight, and Fugitive Narration -- Works Cited -- Acknowledgements -- Index