Convergences: Black Feminism and Continental PhilosophyMaria del Guadalupe Davidson, Kathryn T. Gines, Donna-Dale L. Marcano A range of themes race and gender, sexuality, otherness, sisterhood, and agency run throughout this collection, and the chapters constitute a collective discourse at the intersection of Black feminist thought and continental philosophy, converging on a similar set of questions and concerns. These convergences are not random or forced, but are in many ways natural and necessary: the same issues of agency, identity, alienation, and power inevitably are addressed by both camps. Never before has a group of scholars worked together to examine the resources these two traditions can offer one another. By bringing the relationship between these two critical fields of thought to the forefront, the book will encourage scholars to engage in new dialogues about how each can inform the other. If contemporary philosophy is troubled by the fact that it can be too limited, too closed, too white, too male, then this groundbreaking book confronts and challenges these problems. |
Contents
Introduction Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy | 1 |
1 Black Feminism Poststructuralismand the Contested Character of Experience | 13 |
A Case for Black Feminist Philosophy | 35 |
Black Feminism and Philosophy | 53 |
Slavery and Colonialism inTègònni An African Antigone | 67 |
5 L Is for Longing and Becoming in the LWords Racialized Erotic | 85 |
6 Race and Feminist Standpoint Theory | 105 |
Ann duCille and Gilles Deleuze | 121 |
Fanon White Women and Veiled Muslim Women | 157 |
A Phenomenological Reading of a Black Womans Encounter with a Saleschild | 183 |
Reading Patricia Hill Collins with Michel Foucault | 201 |
Continental Philosophy and Black Feminist Thinkers | 225 |
Philosophy and the Other of the Second Sex | 241 |
Contributor Notes | 249 |
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On the Intersection of Race Gender and the Aesthetic in Contemporary Continental Philosophy | 135 |
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