Hope Draped in Black - Race, Melancholy, and the Agony of Progress

Informationen zum Autor Joseph R. Winters is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Duke University. Klappentext In Hope Draped in Black Joseph R. Winters responds to the belief that America follows a constant trajectory of racial progress, using African American literature and film to construct an idea of hope that embraces melancholy in order to acknowledge and mourn America's traumatic history. Zusammenfassung In Hope Draped in Black Joseph R. Winters responds to the belief that America follows a constant trajectory of racial progress! using African American literature and film to construct an idea of hope that embraces melancholy in order to acknowledge and mourn America's traumatic history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments  ix Introduction  1 1. Unreconciled Strivings: Du Bois, the Seduction of Optimism, and the Legacy of Sorrow  31 2. Unhopeful but Not Hopeless: Melancholic Interpretations of Progress and Freedom  57 3. Hearing the Breaks and Cuts of History: Ellison, Morrison, and the Uses of Literary Jazz  85 4. Reel Progress: Race, Film, and Cinematic Melancholy  137 5. Figures of the Postracial: Race, Nation, and Violence in the Age of Obama and Morrison  187 Conclusion  237 Notes  253 Select Bibliography  287 Index  297

Product details

• Authors: Joseph R Winters, Joseph R. Winters, Joseph Richard Winters
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2016
• EAN: 9780822361534
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-6153-4
• No. of pages: 316
• Series: Religious Cultures of African; Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People; Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People; Religious Cultures of African
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore