Thinking Through Crisis : Depression-Era Black Literature, Theory, and Politics /

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In Thinking Through Crisis, James Edward Ford III examines the works of Richard Wright, Ida B. Wells, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, and Langston Hughes during the 1930s in order to articulate a materialist theory of trauma. Ford highlights the dark proletariat's emergence from the multi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ford, James Edward (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2019]
Colección:Commonalities
Temas:
American literature > 20th century > Black authors > History and criticism.
Depressions in literature.
Race discrimination in literature.
African American Studies.
Literary Studies.
Philosophy & Theory.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.
African American Literature.
Black Studies.
Crisis.
Great Depression.
Proletariat.
Trauma Theory.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: From Being to Unrest, from Objectivity to Motion
  • Notebook 1. Down by the Riverside: Richard Wright, the 1927 Flood, and the Citizen-Refugee
  • Notebook 2. "Crusade for Justice": Ida B. Wells and the Power of the Multitude
  • Notebook 3. W. E. B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction: Theorizing Divine Violence
  • Notebook 4. Zora Neale Hurston's Moses, Man of the Mountain: An Anthropology of Power
  • Notebook 5. The New Day: Notes on Education and the Dark Proletariat
  • Conclusion: From Being to Unrest, from Objectivity to Motion- A Race for Theory
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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