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Thinking through crisis : depression-era Black literature, theory, and politics /
Thinking through Crisis turns to 1930s African American literature to offer a critical response to Trauma Theory. This theoretical discourse carries a nostalgia for "European Man" that limits its understanding of racial and class antagonisms. Consequently, its version of "bearing witn...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2020.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Commonalities.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Thinking through Crisis turns to 1930s African American literature to offer a critical response to Trauma Theory. This theoretical discourse carries a nostalgia for "European Man" that limits its understanding of racial and class antagonisms. Consequently, its version of "bearing witness" yields a political passivity that cannot address the injustices of racism as they are linked to class conflict. Against the political passivity produced by this idealist approach, this book offers a materialist theory of trauma that develops concepts for identifying the agency that Black life produces amid social breakdown. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 353 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0823286932 9780823286935 9780823286928 0823286924 |