Hope Draped in Black

Joseph R. Winters

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Language: English

Published by Duke University Press, US, 2016

0822361736 / 9780822361732

Series: Book 3 of 19 - Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People

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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.…

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Title
Hope Draped in Black
Author
Joseph R. Winters
Publisher
Duke University Press, US
Publication year
2016
Condition
New
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
ISBN 10
0822361736
ISBN 13
9780822361732
Item weight
454 grams
Series
Book 3 of 19: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People

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