Thinking Through Crisis: Depression-Era Black Literature, Theory, and Politics

by James Ford

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In Thinking Through Crisis, James Edward Ford III examines the works of Richard Wright, Ida
B. Wells, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, and Langston Hughes during the 1930s in order to articulate a materialist theory of trauma. Ford highlights the dark proletariat's emergence from the multitude apposite to white supremacist agendas. In these works, Ford argues, proletarian, modernist, and surrealist aesthetics transform fugitive slaves,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0823286916

ISBN13:9780823286911

Release Date:November 2019

Publisher:Fordham University Press

Length:336 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Philosophy Social Science Social Sciences

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