Joseph R Winters

Hope Draped in Black

Race, Melancholy, and the Agony of Progress

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 477g
• ISBN-13: 9780822361732
• ISBN-10: 0822361736
• Artikelnr.: 43709582

Autorenporträt

Joseph R. Winters is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Duke University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
1. Unreconciled Strivings: Du Bois, the Seduction of Optimism, and the
Legacy of Sorrow  31
2. Unhopeful but Not Hopeless: Melancholic Interpretations of Progress and
Freedom  57
3. Hearing the Breaks and Cuts of History: Ellison, Morrison, and the Uses
of Literary Jazz  85
4. Reel Progress: Race, Film, and Cinematic Melancholy  137
5. Figures of the Postracial: Race, Nation, and Violence in the Age of
Obama and Morrison  187
Conclusion  237
Notes  253
Select Bibliography  287
Index  297