Mercy, Mercy Me: African-American Culture and the American SixtiesOxford University Press, 19 paź 2001 - 304 Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book argues that American artistry in the 1960s can be understood as one of the most vital and compelling interrogations of modernity. James C. Hall finds that the legacy of slavery and the resistance to it have by necessity made African Americans among the most incisive critics and celebrants of the Enlightenment inheritance. Focusing on the work of six individuals--Robert Hayden, William Demby, Paule Marshall, John Coltrane, Romare Bearden, and W.E.B. DuBois--Mercy, Mercy Me seeks to recover an American tradition of evaluating the "dialectic of the Enlightenment." |
Spis treści
| 3 | |
Mourning Song Robert Hayden and the Politics of Memory | 39 |
Modern Doubt to Antimodern Commitment Paule Marshall and William Demby | 78 |
Meditations John Coltrane and Freedom | 113 |
The Prevalence of Ritual in an Age of Change Romare Bearden | 151 |
WEB Du Bois and Dedication to the Dead | 187 |
Whats Going On? The Most Truly Modern of All People | 225 |
Notes | 231 |
| 275 | |
Inne wydania - Wyświetl wszystko
Mercy, Mercy Me: African-American Culture and the American Sixties James C. Hall Ograniczony podgląd - 2001 |
Mercy, Mercy Me: African-American Culture and the American Sixties James C. Hall Ograniczony podgląd - 2001 |
Kluczowe wyrazy i wyrażenia
accomplishment aesthetic African African-American antimodernism African-American artists African-American creative intellectuals African-American culture Afro-American American culture American sixties antimodernism antimodernists articulate assertion attempt Autobiography Black Arts Black Arts Movement black music Blues Bois’s certainly challenge character Chicago civil rights cold war collage Coltrane’s commitment complex consciousness contemporary context critical critique death decade Demby’s Despite dramatic Du Bois’s Ellison especially experience Fanon figure Fisk Gwendolyn Brooks Harlem identity ideological important insistence interesting James James Baldwin jazz John Coltrane Jones Jones’s kind literary Literature Love Supreme Marshall’s Mary Lou Williams means memory ment modern narrative Negro Digest notes novel painting past Paule Marshall perhaps poem poet poetic political possibility question race racial radical Ralph Ellison readers reading relationship religious resistance ritual Robert Hayden Romare Bearden seems sense significant social spiritual struggle suggests tion Tolson tradition University Press W.E.B. Du Bois William Demby writes York