| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (x, 353 pages) |
| Series |
Commonalities
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Commonalities.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century -- Black authors -- History and criticism.
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Race discrimination in literature.
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Depressions in literature.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies. |
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Depressions in literature |
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Race discrimination in literature |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Indexed Term |
African American Literature. |
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Black Studies. |
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Crisis. |
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Great Depression. |
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Proletariat. |
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Trauma Theory. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| ISBN |
0823286932 (electronic bk.) |
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9780823286935 (electronic bk.) |
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9780823286928 (electronic bk.) |
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0823286924 (electronic bk.) |
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9780823286904 |
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