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Stewart Lindsey (LIndsey L.) |
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The politics of black joy : Zora Neale Hurston and neo-abolitionism / / Lindsey Stewart |
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Evanston, Illinois : , : Northwestern University Press, , 2021 |
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©2021 |
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African American philosophy |
Joy - Philosophy |
Joy - Political aspects - Southern States |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
Southern States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Introduction: The Trouble of Black Southern Joy -- "I Ain't Thinkin' 'Bout You -- "Sing[ing] a Song to the Morning": The Politics of Joy -- "The Past and the Future Merge to Meet Us Here" -- "An Object of Pity": Zora Neale Hurston, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the Rise of Abolitionism -- "She Don't Gotta Give It Up, She Professional" -- "Tak[ing] the Indian Position": Hurston within and against the Abolitionist Tradition -- "Slay Trick, or You Get Eliminated" -- "Winning [Our] War from Within": Moving beyond Resistance -- Conclusion: The Politics of Joy in the Time of the Coronavirus. |
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"In the Politics of Black Joy, Lindsey Stewart develops Hurston's contributions to political theory and philosophy of race by introducing the politics of joy as a refusal of neoabolitionism, a political tradition that reduces southern Black life to tragedy or social death"-- |
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