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Author Marcus, Sara, 1977- author.

Title Political disappointment : a cultural history from Reconstruction to the AIDS crisis / Sara Marcus.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2023.
©2023
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Description 1 online resource (248 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : Loss and American culture -- Failures of the Reconstruction : History and disappointment -- Transcribing solidarity : The Popular Front and its afterlives -- "I stand mute" : Civil rights cacophony and quiet -- Senses of solidarity : Voice, vision, and feminism in crisis -- The ancestors' breath : AIDS and aural coalitions -- Coda.
Summary "Sara Marcus argues for the emancipatory potential of political disappointment-the unrealized desire for liberation. Exploring literature and sound from Reconstruction to Black Power, from the Popular Front to second-wave feminism and the AIDS crisis, Marcus shows how moments of defeat have inspired new ensembles of art and activism"-- Provided by publisher.
Biography Sara Marcus is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame.
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Subject American literature -- Political aspects.
American literature -- Political aspects.
American literature.
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Music and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Music and literature.
United States.
History.
Music and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- African American authors.
Disappointment -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Disappointment.
Disappointment -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African-American.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Literary criticism.
Literary criticism.
Other Form: Print version: Marcus, Sara, 1977- Political disappointment. Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2023 9780674248656 (DLC) 2022042887 (OCoLC)1344421163
ISBN 9780674293427 EPUB
0674293428 EPUB
9780674293410 PDF
067429341X PDF
9780674248656 hardcover
0674248651 hardcover

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