Thinking Through Crisis Depression-Era Black Literature, Theory, and Politics

Free Download James Edward Ford III, "Thinking Through Crisis: Depression-Era Black Literature, Theory, and Politics "
English | ISBN: 0823286916 | 2019 | 336 pages | EPUB | 533 KB
Winner, 2020 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Modern Language Association

Honorable Mention, MSA First Book Prize
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.
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