- Description
- 1 online resource (x, 353 pages)
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Commonalities
- Uniform Title
- Thinking through crisis (Online)
- Commonalities.
- Alternative Title
- Thinking through crisis (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2020430128
- OCLC
- ssj0002454004
- Author
Ford, James Edward, III.
- Title
Thinking through crisis [electronic resource] : depression-era Black literature, theory, and politics / James Edward Ford III.
- Imprint
New York : Fordham University Press, 2020.
- Edition
First edition.
- Series
Commonalities
Commonalities.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Chronological Term
1900-1999