Winters Hope Draped in Black

Race, Melancholy, and the Agony of Progress
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7408-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

Reihe: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Winters, Joseph R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

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

Über Autor(innen)

Joseph R. Winters is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Duke University.