The Resource Hope draped in black : race, melancholy, and the agony of progress, Joseph R. Winters
Hope draped in black : race, melancholy, and the agony of progress, Joseph R. Winters
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- Summary
- In Hope Draped in Black Joseph R. Winters responds to the enduring belief that America follows a constant trajectory of racial progress. Such notions--like those that suggested the passage into a postracial era following Barack Obama's election--gloss over the history of racial violence and oppression to create an imaginary and self-congratulatory world where painful memories are conveniently forgotten. In place of these narratives, Winters advocates for an idea of hope that is predicated on a continuous engagement with loss and melancholy. Signaling a heightened sensitivity to the suffering of others, melancholy disconcerts us and allows us to cut against dominant narratives and identities. Winters identifies a black literary and aesthetic tradition in the work of intellectuals, writers, and artists such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and Charles Burnett that often underscores melancholy, remembrance, loss, and tragedy in ways that gesture toward such a conception of hope. Winters also draws on Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno to highlight how remembering and mourning the uncomfortable dimensions of American social life can provide alternate sources for hope and imagination that might lead to building a better world. (Publisher)
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 304 pages
- Contents
-
- Unreconciled strivings: Du Bois, the seduction of optimism, and the legacy of sorrow
- Unhopeful but not hopeless: melancholic interpretations of freedom and progress
- Hearing the breaks and cuts of history: Ellison, Morrison, and the uses of literary jazz
- Reel progress: race, film, and cinematic melancholy
- Figures of the postracial: race, nation, and violence in the age of Obama and Morrison
- Isbn
- 9780822361534
- Label
- Hope draped in black : race, melancholy, and the agony of progress
- Title
- Hope draped in black
- Title remainder
- race, melancholy, and the agony of progress
- Statement of responsibility
- Joseph R. Winters
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In Hope Draped in Black Joseph R. Winters responds to the enduring belief that America follows a constant trajectory of racial progress. Such notions--like those that suggested the passage into a postracial era following Barack Obama's election--gloss over the history of racial violence and oppression to create an imaginary and self-congratulatory world where painful memories are conveniently forgotten. In place of these narratives, Winters advocates for an idea of hope that is predicated on a continuous engagement with loss and melancholy. Signaling a heightened sensitivity to the suffering of others, melancholy disconcerts us and allows us to cut against dominant narratives and identities. Winters identifies a black literary and aesthetic tradition in the work of intellectuals, writers, and artists such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and Charles Burnett that often underscores melancholy, remembrance, loss, and tragedy in ways that gesture toward such a conception of hope. Winters also draws on Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno to highlight how remembering and mourning the uncomfortable dimensions of American social life can provide alternate sources for hope and imagination that might lead to building a better world. (Publisher)
- Cataloging source
- NcD/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1977-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Winters, Joseph Richard
- Dewey number
- 305.800973
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E185.615
- LC item number
- .W568 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- The religious cultures of African and African diaspora people
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- United States
- United States
- Racism
- African Americans
- Label
- Hope draped in black : race, melancholy, and the agony of progress, Joseph R. Winters
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-296) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Unreconciled strivings: Du Bois, the seduction of optimism, and the legacy of sorrow -- Unhopeful but not hopeless: melancholic interpretations of freedom and progress -- Hearing the breaks and cuts of history: Ellison, Morrison, and the uses of literary jazz -- Reel progress: race, film, and cinematic melancholy -- Figures of the postracial: race, nation, and violence in the age of Obama and Morrison
- Control code
- ocn919341902
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 304 pages
- Isbn
- 9780822361534
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2015043615
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (OCoLC)919341902
- Label
- Hope draped in black : race, melancholy, and the agony of progress, Joseph R. Winters
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-296) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Unreconciled strivings: Du Bois, the seduction of optimism, and the legacy of sorrow -- Unhopeful but not hopeless: melancholic interpretations of freedom and progress -- Hearing the breaks and cuts of history: Ellison, Morrison, and the uses of literary jazz -- Reel progress: race, film, and cinematic melancholy -- Figures of the postracial: race, nation, and violence in the age of Obama and Morrison
- Control code
- ocn919341902
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 304 pages
- Isbn
- 9780822361534
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2015043615
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (OCoLC)919341902
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