Thinking Through Crisis : : Depression-Era Black Literature, Theory, and Politics / / James Edward Ford.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Ford, James Edward,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Commonalities
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: From Being to Unrest, from Objectivity to Motion -- Notebook 1. Down by the Riverside: Richard Wright, the 1927 Flood, and the Citizen-Refugee -- Notebook 2. "Crusade for Justice": Ida B. Wells and the Power of the Multitude -- Notebook 3. W. E. B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction: Theorizing Divine Violence -- Notebook 4. Zora Neale Hurston's Moses, Man of the Mountain: An Anthropology of Power -- Notebook 5. The New Day: Notes on Education and the Dark Proletariat -- Conclusion: From Being to Unrest, from Objectivity to Motion- A Race for Theory -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author