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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1. Verfasser: Ford, James Edward, III (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : Fordham University Press, 2020.
Ausgabe:First edition.
Schriftenreihe:Commonalities.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 353 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0823286932
9780823286935
9780823286928
0823286924

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