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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ford, James Edward, III (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Commonalities.
Subjects:
1900-1999
American literature > 20th century > Black authors > History and criticism.
Race discrimination in literature.
Depressions in literature.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Auteurs noirs > Histoire et critique.
Discrimination raciale dans la littérature.
Crises économiques dans la littérature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
Depressions in literature
Race discrimination in literature
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : from being to unrest, from objectivity to motion
  • Down by the riverside : Richard Wright, the 1927 flood, and the citizen-refugee
  • "Crusade for Justice" : Ida B. Wells and the power of the multitude
  • W.E.B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction : theorizing divine violence
  • Zora Neale Hurston's Moses, Man of the Mountain : an anthropology of power
  • The new day : notes on Education and the dark proletariat
  • Conclusion : from being to unrest, from objectivity to motion-a race for theory.

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