Hope Draped in Black : Race, Melancholy, and the Agony of Progress /

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In Hope Draped in Black Joseph R. Winters responds to the belief that America follows a constant trajectory of racial progress, using African American literature and film to construct an idea of hope that embraces melancholy in order to acknowledge and mourn America's traumatic history.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Winters, Joseph Richard, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Racism.
Race relations > Political aspects.
Race relations > Philosophy.
African Americans > Race identity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Noirs americains > Identite ethnique.
Racisme > États-Unis.
Racism > United States.
United States.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Aspect politique.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Philosophie.
United States > Race relations > Political aspects.
United States > Race relations > Philosophy.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Unreconciled strivings: Du Bois, the seduction of optimism, and the legacy of sorrow
  • Unhopeful but not hopeless: melancholic interpretations of freedom and progress
  • Hearing the breaks and cuts of history: Ellison, Morrison, and the uses of literary jazz
  • Reel progress: race, film, and cinematic melancholy
  • Figures of the postracial: race, nation, and violence in the age of Obama and Morrison.

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