ISBN:
9780822361534
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (321 p)
Series Statement:
Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
Series Statement:
Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People Ser
Parallel Title:
Print version Winters, Joseph R Hope Draped in Black : Race, Melancholy, and the Agony of Progress
DDC:
305.800973
Keywords:
African Americans - Race identity - United States
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African Americans - Race identity - United States
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One. Unreconciled Strivings: Du Bois, the Seduction of Optimism, and the Legacy of Sorrow -- Two. Unhopeful but Not Hopeless: Melancholic Interpretations of Progress and Freedom -- Three. Hearing the Breaks and Cuts of History: Ellison, Morrison, and the Uses of Literary Jazz -- Four. Reel Progress: Race, Film, and Cinematic Melancholy -- Five. Figures of the Postracial: Race, Nation, and Violence in the Age of Obama and Morrison -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K
Abstract:
L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z
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