Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-296) and index.
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.
Series:
The religious cultures of African and African diaspora people
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