Mercy, Mercy Me - African American Culture and the American Sixties

Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book argues that American artistry in the 1960s can be understood as one of the most vital and compelling interrogations of modernity. James C. Hall finds that the legacy of slavery and the resistance to it have by necessity made African Americans among the most incisive critics and celebrants of the Enlightenment inheritance. Focusing on the work of six individuals--Robert Hayden, William Demby, Paule Marshall, John Coltrane, Romare Bearden, and W.E.B. DuBois--Mercy, Mercy Me seeks to recover an American tradition of evaluating the "dialectic of the Enlightenment."

Summary

Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book argues that American artistry in the Sixties can be understood as one of the most vital and compelling interrogations of modernity. James C. Hall finds that the legacy of slavery and the resistance to it have by necessity made African Americans among the most incisive critics and celebrants of the Enlightenment inheritance. Focusing on the work of six individuals--Robert Hayden, William Demby, Paule Marshall, John Coltrane, Romare Bearden, and W.E.B. DuBois--Mercy, Mercy Me seeks to recover an American tradition of evaluating the "dialectic of the Enlightenment."

Additional text

James C. Hall invites us to revise our thinking about the 1960s in this thoughtful and generative study of the extraordinary efflorescence of poetry, fiction, autobiography, music, and painting that emerged out of that decade's African American freedom movement ... thoughtful, subtle, and persuasive.

Product details

• Authors: James C. Hall, James C. (Assistant Professor of English and Hall, Hall James C.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2001
• EAN: 9780195096095
• ISBN: 978-0-19-509609-5
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Race and American Culture; Race and American Culture
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, c 1960 to c 1970, Regional Studies, United States of America, USA, Regional / International studies, c 1960 to c 1969, Black & Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General