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Ahad-Legardy Badia <1974-> |
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Afro-Nostalgia : Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture / / Badia Ahad-Legardy |
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Urbana : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2021 |
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©2021 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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The new black studies series |
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American literature - African American authors - History and criticism |
Aesthetics, Black |
Nostalgia in literature |
Happiness in literature |
African Americans - Attitudes |
African Americans - Historiography |
Collective memory |
Esthétique noire |
Nostalgie dans la littérature |
Bonheur dans la littérature |
American literature - African American authors |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
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Monografia |
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Ten thousand recollections : Afro-nostalgia and contemporary Black aesthetics -- (Nostalgic) retribution : the power of the petty in contemporary narratives of slavery -- (Nostalgic) restoration : Utopian pasts and political futures in the music of Black Lives Matter -- (Nostalgic) regeneration : absent archives and historical pleasures in contemporary Black visual culture -- (Nostalgic) reclamation : recipes for radicalism and the politics of soul (food) -- A future for Black nostalgia. |
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"African descent could not experience nostalgia. As a result, black lives have been predominately narrated through historical scenes of slavery |
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and oppression. This phenomenon created a missing archive of romantic historical memories. Badia Ahad-Legardy mines literature, visual culture, performance, and culinary arts to form an archive of black historical joy for use by the African-descended. Her analysis reveals how contemporary black artists find more than trauma and subjugation within the historical past. Drawing on contemporary African American culture and recent psychological studies, Ahad-Legardy reveals nostalgia's capacity to produce positive emotions. Afro-nostalgia emerges as an expression of black romantic recollection that creates and inspires good feelings even within our darkest moments"-- |
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