Rereading William Melvin Kelley : Black Identity Construction in the Light of an Africana Existentialist and Phenomenological Approach.
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Authors: | Blec, Yannick M. | Abstract: | As an African American writer who was part of the Black Arts Movement, William Melvin Kelley became an ardent defender of Black identity/-ies and the Black Aesthetics. This article aims to revisit his narratives through the scopes of African Existential Philosophy and a phenomenological approach in order to understand how he perceived and constructed Black identities in the context of segregation. At the cross-road between imagination and lived experience, his stories interrogate what constitutes the self as an existing Black body filled with individual and community essence. |
Keywords: | William Melvin Kelley; Africana existential philosophy; phenomenology | Issue Date: | 2016 | Journal/Edited collection: | Black Studies Papers | Start page: | 99 | End page: | 112 | Note: | 1 | Volume: | 2 | Type: | Artikel/Aufsatz | ISSN: | 2198-7920 | Secondary publication: | no | URN: | urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00105251-11 | Institution: | Universität Bremen | Faculty: | Fachbereich 10: Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (FB 10) |
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