Frederick Douglass, a Psychobiography Rethinking Subjectivity in the Western Experiment of Democracy /

In the extreme context of the American slavocracy, how do we account for the robust subjectivity and agency of Frederick Douglass? In an environment of extremity, where most contemporary psychological theory suggests the human spirit would be vanquished, how did Frederick Douglass emerge to become o...

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1. Verfasser: Gibson, Danjuma G. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Ausgabe:1st ed. 2018.
Schriftenreihe:Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice
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ISBN:9783319752297
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Intersubjective-Matrix of the Slavocracy: Experiencing the World of Frederick Douglass
  • 3. Reimagining Black Subjectivity: A Psychoanalysis of Frederick Douglass
  • 4. A New Birth: Agency Over Body and Sacred Spaces of Play
  • 5. The Force of Being, Life-Stories, and the Counter-Narrative: A Brief Comment on Cultural Trauma and Resiliency in Personal Testimony
  • 6. A Constructive Theology of Deliverance: Redeeming the Internal Force of Being
  • 7. Remembering, Lament, and Public Ritual: Redeeming the Democratic Experiment. .