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Book SynopsisJean-Paul Sartre’s work has been taken up by writers outside of Europe, particularly in the Global South, who have developed phenomenological and existential analyses of racism, colonialism, and other structures of domination. Sartre’s philosophical concepts are fundamentally open, for instance his notions of humanism, bad-faith, and freedom.
As a situational, committed thinker, Sartre worked to illuminate the urgent questions of his time at the concrete and the abstract level. The creolization of Sartrean thinking is consistent with the existential projects of engagement, authenticity, political commitment, and liberation from oppression. This volume asks how his European model of phenomenology was (and can be) transformed when it is taken up by thinkers who have lived experience with colonialism. They book also engages Sartre in his relation to key interlocutors (especially Beauvoir and Fanon) who were influenced by him and who influenced him in turn. The book demonstrates how Sartrean philosophy is productively related to Africana philosophy, Africana phenomenology, and Africana existentialism.
This volume treats creolization not as a discrete topic, but as an interdisciplinary, global approach to reading and thinking. Each author’s contribution embodies an aspect of creolizing thinking, understood as the articulation of cultural and conceptual hybridity under conditions of eurocentrism, epistemic colonialism and the legacies of slavery. Creolizing Sartre re-reads Sartrean texts to recast existential themes through the lens of Caribbean philosophies and the broader philosophies of the Global South.
Table of ContentsSouleymane Bachir Diagne, (Columbia University), Preface
Kris Sealey and T Storm Heter, Introduction
- Lewis Gordon, (University of Connecticut), Global Existentialism
- Michael Monahan, (University of Memphis), Racial Praxis: Black Liberation and the Movement From Series to Group
- Thomas Meagher, (University of Memphis), Creolized Reflection
- Craig Matarrese, (Minnesota State University, Mankato) Jazz Improvisation and Creolizing Phenomenology
- Nathalie Nya, (John Carroll University), Reversing the Gaze, Sartre’s Preface to Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth
- Sybil Cooksey, (New York University), Miles’s Smiles: Mid-Century Portraits of Improvised Freedom
- Nathifa Greene, (Gettysburg College), Creolization and Contact
- Jonathan Webber, (Cardiff University) Transcendental Phenomenology Meets Negritude Poetry
- James Haile III, (University of Rhode Island), Sartre and Black Aesthetics
- Douglas Ficek, (University of New Haven), Creolization Is a Humanism
- Lawrence Bamikole,(University of the West Indies, Mona) Sartre's Existentialism and the Communal Thesis in Afro-Caribbean Philosophy
- Hiroaki Seki, (University of Tokyo), Kenzaburo Oe and his Sartrean Postures: A Case Study of Creolization in Japan
- Kimberly S. Engels, (Molloy College), Man as a Useful Passion: The Existential Subject At Home on the Earth
- Paget Henry, (Brown University), Wilson Harris and the Creolizing of Sartre
- Marieke Mueller, (Aberystwyth University), Sartre, Fanon and Violence: Reading Existentialism through Achille Mbembe
- Hady Ba, (Université Cheikh Anta Diop), Sartre's Anti-Colonial Prefaces
- Bado Ndoye (Université Cheikh Anta Diop), Sartre and Senghorian Negritude
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