Up from Bondage

by Peterson, Dale

• ISBN13: 9780822325260
• ISBN10: 0822325268
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"Navigating the endless bounty of intellectual lapses and possibilities that reside in the gap between the West (qua 'philosophy') and the Rest (as "barbaros," or racialized 'outcasts'), Professor Peterson finds an accommodating comparative channel in similarities between African American and Slavic forms of intellectual, missionary, and cultural nationalisms. The result is one of those books one remembers as uncannily important, yoking together seemingly incompatible regions in interesting ways."--Houston Baker, Duke University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Prologue: Justifying the Margin: The Cultural Construction of "Soul"

Civilizing the Race: The Missionary Nationalism of Chaadaev and Crummell

Conserving the Race: The Emergence of Cultural Nationalism

Notes from the Underworld: Dostoevsky, DuBois, and the Discovery of Ethnic "Soul"

Recovering the Native Tongue: Turgenev, Chesnutt, and Hurston

Underground Notes: Double-Voicedness and the Poetics of National Identity

Native Sons Against Native Soul: Maxim Gorky and Richard Wright

Eurasians and New Negroes: The Invention of Multicultural Nationalism

Preserving the Race: Rasputin, Naylor, and the Mystique of Native "Soul"

Epilogue: Response and Call: The African American Dialogue with Bakhtin

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

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