Mercy, Mercy Me: African-American Culture and the American Sixties

by James C. Hall

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195096096
• ISBN13: 9780195096095
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"