The politics of Black joy Zora Neale Hurston and neo-abolitionism

Introduction: The Trouble of Black Southern Joy -- "I Ain't Thinkin' 'Bout You -- "Sing[ing] a Song to the Morning": The Politics of Joy -- "The Past and the Future Merge to Meet Us Here" -- "An Object of Pity": Zora Neale Hurston, W. E. B. Du Bois,...

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1. Verfasser: Stewart, Lindsey (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Evanston, Illinois Northwestern University Press 2021
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction: The Trouble of Black Southern Joy -- "I Ain't Thinkin' 'Bout You -- "Sing[ing] a Song to the Morning": The Politics of Joy -- "The Past and the Future Merge to Meet Us Here" -- "An Object of Pity": Zora Neale Hurston, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the Rise of Abolitionism -- "She Don't Gotta Give It Up, She Professional" -- "Tak[ing] the Indian Position": Hurston within and against the Abolitionist Tradition -- "Slay Trick, or You Get Eliminated" -- "Winning [Our] War from Within": Moving beyond Resistance -- Conclusion: The Politics of Joy in the Time of the Coronavirus.
"In the Politics of Black Joy, Lindsey Stewart develops Hurston's contributions to political theory and philosophy of race by introducing the politics of joy as a refusal of neoabolitionism, a political tradition that reduces southern Black life to tragedy or social death"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:ix, 200 Seiten
ISBN:9780810144132
978-0-8101-4413-2
9780810144118
978-0-8101-4411-8