Thinking Through Crisis: Depression-Era Black Literature, Theory, and Politics

by James Ford

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823286916
• ISBN13: 9780823286911
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"