James Edward Ford

Thinking Through Crisis

Depression-Era Black Literature, Theory, and Politics

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Produktbeschreibung

James Edward Ford III is Associate Professor of English at Occidental College. His writings on the aesthetics of black radicalism, black popular culture, and political theory have appeared in the journals Novel, Biography, Cultural Critique, College Literature, New Centennial Review, ASAP Journal, and multiple edited collections. He is currently working on ¿Phillis, the Black Swan: Disheveling the Origins¿ and ¿Hip-Hop¿s Late Style: Disheveling the Origins,¿ two projects that rethink the origins and ends of black American cultural production.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 685g
• ISBN-13: 9780823286904
• ISBN-10: 0823286908
• Artikelnr.: 55396049

Autorenporträt

James Edward Ford III

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: From Being to Unrest, from Objectivity to Motion 1
Notebook 1 Down by the Riverside: Richard Wright,
the 1927 Flood, and the Citizen-Refugee 35
Notebook 2 "Crusade for Justice": Ida B. Wells and
the Power of the Multitude 74
Notebook 3 W. E. B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction:
Theorizing Divine Violence 123
Notebook 4 Zora Neale Hurston's Moses, Man of the
Mountain: An Anthropology of Power 193
Notebook 5 The New Day: Notes on Education and
the Dark Proletariat 244
Conclusion: From Being to Unrest, from Objectivity
to Motion-A Race for Theory 291
Notes 299
Index 333