Philadelphia Freedoms : Black American Trauma, Memory, and Culture after King.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Awkward, Michael, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.

American fiction.

American fiction--African American authors.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African Americans.

Collective memory in literature.

Psychic trauma in literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2013.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Michael Awkward's Philadelphia Freedoms captures the energetic contestations over the meanings of racial politics and black identity during the post-King era in the City of Brotherly Love. Looking closely at four cultural moments, he shows how racial trauma and his native city's history have been entwined. He introduces each of these moments with poignant personal memories of the decade in focus and explores representation of African American freedom and oppression from the 1960s to the 1990s. Philadelphia Freedoms explores NBA players' psychic pain dur.

Contents:

Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Keeping the Past in Lively Memory after King: The Traumatic Implications of Black American Oppression; Chapter 1. ""Philadelphia Did Not Burn"": Quelling Riots and Deferring Hoop Dreams in the Age of the Militant Black Athlete; Chapter 2. Haunted Longings: Nostalgic Black Musical Formulations of Masculinity and the Patriarchal Family; Chapter 3. A ""Genuinely Afro-American Narrative"": Sarah Phillips and the Politics of Black Textual Authenticity; Chapter 4. Screening the (Beloved) Novel: On Oprah WInfrey and the Protocols of Adaptation.

Conclusion: No Longer at Home?Notes; References; Index.

Notes:

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Awkward, Michael. Philadelphia Freedoms : Black American Trauma, Memory, and Culture after King.

ISBN:

9781439907108

1439907102

OCLC:

857365244

Publisher Number:

10.2307/j.ctvrf88z5

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.