Thinking through crisis : depression-era Black literature, theory, and politics / James Edward Ford III.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ford, James Edward, III, author.

Series:

Commonalities.

Commonalities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--20th century--Black authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

Depressions in literature.

Race discrimination in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2020]

Summary:

In Thinking Through Crisis, James Edward Ford III examines the works of Richard Wright, Ida B. Wells, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, and Langston Hughes during the 1930s in order to articulate a materialist theory of trauma. Ford highlights the dark proletariat’s emergence from the multitude apposite to white supremacist agendas. In these works, Ford argues, proletarian, modernist, and surrealist aesthetics transform fugitive slaves, sharecroppers, leased convicts, levee workers, and activist intellectuals into protagonists of anti-racist and anti-capitalist movements in the United States.Thinking Through Crisis intervenes in debates on the 1930s, radical subjectivity, and states of emergency. It will be of interest to scholars of American literature, African American literature, proletarian literature, black studies, trauma theory, and political theory.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction: From Being to Unrest, from Objectivity to Motion

Notebook 1. Down by the Riverside: Richard Wright, the 1927 Flood, and the Citizen-Refugee

Notebook 2. “Crusade for Justice”: Ida B. Wells and the Power of the Multitude

Notebook 3. W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction: Theorizing Divine Violence

Notebook 4. Zora Neale Hurston’s Moses, Man of the Mountain: An Anthropology of Power

Notebook 5. The New Day: Notes on Education and the Dark Proletariat

Conclusion: From Being to Unrest, from Objectivity to Motion— A Race for Theory

Notes

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

0-8232-8693-2

OCLC:

1121286255