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

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

Ford, James Edward

Hardcover

Series: Commonalities

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismBlack American Studies

ISBN10: 0823286908
ISBN13: 9780823286904
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: Nov 5 2019
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.51
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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.

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