Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-198) and index.

Introduction: Decolonizing existentialism and phenomenology -- Roots of a decolonial feminist philosophy : Beauvoir's feminist phenomenology and existentialism -- Fanon's phenomenological decolonial psychology and the negation of Black subjectivity -- Decolonizing the paradox of hyper-visible bodies, un-visible humanity in Wright's Native son and Black boy -- Lewis Gordon's phenomenology of racist bad faith -- Audre Lorde's decolonial, queer, black feminist phenomenology -- Sylvia Wynter and Jamaica Kincaid : post-colonial feminist approaches to lived experience -- Conclusion: Where do existentialism and phenomenology go from here?

"This trans-disciplinary, socio-spatial study analyzes the history of decolonial existentialist and phenomenological theory in the work of figures such as Simone de Beauvoir, Richard Wright, Franz Fanon, Lewis Gordon, Audre Lorde, Sylvia Wynter, and Jamaica Kincaid to decolonize dominant discourses on femininity, Blackness, and Black peoples"-- Provided by publisher.