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...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2020.
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Edition: | First edition. |
Series: | Commonalities.
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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.