Political Disappointment : : A Cultural History from Reconstruction to the AIDS Crisis / / Sara Marcus.

Moving from the aftermath of Reconstruction through the AIDS crisis, a new cultural history of the United States shows how artists, intellectuals, and activists turned political disappointment—the unfulfilled desire for change—into a basis for solidarity.Sara Marcus argues that the defining texts in...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Loss and American Culture
  • 1. Failures of the Reconstruction
  • 2. Transcribing Losses
  • 3. “I Stand Mute”
  • 4. Senses of Solidarity
  • 5. The Ancestors’ Breath
  • Coda
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index