Raphael Lambert (Japan Kansai University)

Broschiertes Buch

Black Hopes/Black Woes

Early African American Optimism and 21st Century Afro-Pessimism

Beschreibung

Engaging with issues including black identity, agency and antiblackness, this book explores the positive ethos of early African American intellectuals and their confidence in national democratic institutions, in contrast to the emergence of a more negative â Afro-Pessimismâ among their present-day counterparts.

Autor

Raphaël Lambert has lived in Japan for over 23 years. He resides in Kyoto and teaches African American literature and culture in the Department of American and British Cultural Studies at Kansai University in Osaka. His book, Narrating the Slave Trade, Theorizing Community (Brill), came out in January 2019. He also published essays in the Journal of Modern Literature , Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, and African American Review. He is coeditor of The African American Novel in the Early Twenty-First Century (Brill), a collection of essays published in December 2024.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 378g
• ISBN-13: 9781032473512
• ISBN-10: 1032473517
• Artikelnr.: 72489160