Afro-Nostalgia : Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture / Badia Ahad-Legardy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ahad-Legardy, Badia, author.

Series:

New Black studies series ; Volume 1.

New Black Studies Series ; Volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

Nostalgia in literature.

Happiness in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois, [2021]

Summary:

"African descent could not experience nostalgia. As a result, black lives have been predominately narrated through historical scenes of slavery and oppression. This phenomenon created a missing archive of romantic historical memories. Badia Ahad-Legardy mines literature, visual culture, performance, and culinary arts to form an archive of black historical joy for use by the African-descended. Her analysis reveals how contemporary black artists find more than trauma and subjugation within the historical past. Drawing on contemporary African American culture and recent psychological studies, Ahad-Legardy reveals nostalgia's capacity to produce positive emotions. Afro-nostalgia emerges as an expression of black romantic recollection that creates and inspires good feelings even within our darkest moments"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Ten thousand recollections : Afro-nostalgia and contemporary Black aesthetics

(Nostalgic) retribution : the power of the petty in contemporary narratives of slavery

(Nostalgic) restoration : Utopian pasts and political futures in the music of Black Lives Matter

(Nostalgic) regeneration : absent archives and historical pleasures in contemporary Black visual culture

(Nostalgic) reclamation : recipes for radicalism and the politics of soul (food)

A future for Black nostalgia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780252043666

0252043669

OCLC:

1246620975