04295oam 2200733I 450 991015779810332120220322154434.00-8041-3742-0(OCoLC)974489173(CKB)3710000001009541(MiAaPQ)EBC6109152(Au-PeEL)EBL6109152(OCoLC)1155988729(EXLCZ)99371000000100954120170116d2017 uy 0engurun#---auuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDemocracy in black how race still enslaves the American soul /Eddie S. Glaude JrFirst paperback edition.New York :Broadway Books,2017.1 online resource (xi, 284 pages)0-8041-3741-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.A thick fog of unreality -- The Great Black Depression -- The value gap -- Racial habits -- White fear -- Restless sleep after King's dream -- Between two worlds -- President Obama and Black liberals -- A revolution of value -- Resurrection -- Democracy in black."A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society America's great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans, but today the situation has grown even more dire. From the murders of black youth by the police, to the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act, to the disaster visited upon poor and middle-class black families by the Great Recession, it is clear that black America faces an emergency--at the very moment the election of the first black president has prompted many to believe we've solved America's race problem. Democracy in Black is Eddie S. Glaude Jr.'s impassioned response. Part manifesto, part history, part memoir, it argues that we live in a country founded on a "value gap"--with white lives valued more than others--that still distorts our politics today. Whether discussing why all Americans have racial habits that reinforce inequality, why black politics based on the civil-rights era have reached a dead end, or why only remaking democracy from the ground up can bring real change, Glaude crystallizes the untenable position of black America--and offers thoughts on a better way forward. Forceful in ideas and unsettling in its candor, Democracy In Black is a landmark book on race in America, one that promises to spark wide discussion as we move toward the end of our first black presidency"--Provided by publisher.African AmericansSocial conditions21st centuryAfrican AmericansEconomic conditions21st centuryRacismUnited StatesHistory21st centuryRace discriminationUnited StatesHistory21st centurySOCIAL SCIENCE/Discrimination & Race RelationsbisacshSOCIAL SCIENCE/Minority StudiesbisacshAfrican AmericansEconomic conditionsfast(OCoLC)fst00799599African AmericansSocial conditionsfast(OCoLC)fst00799698Race discriminationfast(OCoLC)fst01086465Race relationsfast(OCoLC)fst01086509Racismfast(OCoLC)fst01086616United StatesRace relations21st centuryUnited StatesfastHistoryfastElectronic books.African AmericansSocial conditionsAfrican AmericansEconomic conditionsRacismHistoryRace discriminationHistorySOCIAL SCIENCE/Discrimination & Race RelationsSOCIAL SCIENCE/Minority StudiesAfrican AmericansEconomic conditionsAfrican AmericansSocial conditionsRace discriminationRace relationsRacism305.896/0730905SOC001000SOC031000HIS036070bisacshGlaude Eddie S.Jr.,1968-1211165MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910157798103321Democracy in black2795507UNINA03830nam 2200673 a 450 991081057520332120240514043935.01-283-40056-197866134005673-11-025673-810.1515/9783110256734(CKB)3520000000000132(EBL)787199(OCoLC)757261236(SSID)ssj0000539445(PQKBManifestationID)12252955(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000539445(PQKBWorkID)10568835(PQKB)11459089(MiAaPQ)EBC787199(DE-B1597)123811(OCoLC)769190146(OCoLC)979753555(DE-B1597)9783110256734(Au-PeEL)EBL787199(CaPaEBR)ebr10512190(CaONFJC)MIL340056(EXLCZ)99352000000000013220110429d2011 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrNelly Sachs the poetics of silence and the limits of representation /by Elaine Martin1st ed.Berlin ;New York De Gruyterc20111 online resource (208 p.)Description based upon print version of record.3-11-025672-X Includes bibliographical references.Front matter --Acknowledgements --Contents --Introduction --I. Contexts --1. Nelly Sachs: A Tumultuous Reception History --2. The Problematics of Holocaust Representation --II. Practices --3. Nelly Sachs' Poetics of Silence: Poetry at the Limits of Representation --Conclusion --BibliographyNelly Sachs. The Poetics of Silence and the Limits of Representation examines the poetry of the Nobel Prize-winning German Jewish poet Nelly Sachs. It firstly shifts established patterns of reception by analysing the author's reception in East and West Germany after the war and the role she came to play in the Federal Republic as a representative 'Poet of Reconciliation'. The study then situates Sachs' work within the framework of the debate surrounding the representation of the Holocaust by means of a thorough exposition of the aporia at the heart of Theodor Adorno's writings on post-Holocaust art. It demonstrates by close reading how Sachs' work is itself marked by this aporetic struggle and exposes in particular the aesthetic means by which Sachs renders this aporetic tension legible in her poetry through her use of, for example, prosopopoeia, her recasting of traditional metaphors and her reversal of biblical archetypes. The primary question addressed is whether Sachs' poetry, in spite of the fact that it thematises the impossibility of adequate representation, has representational value, or whether her work is bereft of concrete, representational meaning as a result of the often fragmented nature of her writing. In particular, the author confronts those critics who see in Sachs' work elements of consolation, reconciliation, or redemption in a transcendental realm, in favour of a reading that regards her work as permeated with the concrete events of the Holocaust and irreconcilably opposed to any notion of a religious sense-making and redemptive paradigm.LITERARY CRITICISM / European / GermanbisacshGerman-Jewish Studies.Holocaust Literature.Nelly Sachs.Post-War Literature.LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German.831/.914831.914Martin Elaine1982-1602853MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810575203321Nelly Sachs3926956UNINA