The Strangers Book: The Human of African American Literature

by Lloyd Pratt

Book Overview

The Strangers Book explores how various nineteenth-century African American writers radically reframed the terms of humanism by redefining what it meant to be a stranger. Rejecting the idea that humans have easy access to a common reserve of experiences and emotions, they countered the notion that a person can use a supposed knowledge of human nature to claim full understanding of any other person's life. Instead they posited that being...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812224868
• ISBN13: 9780812224863
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"