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Autore: | Ahad-Legardy Badia <1974-> |
Titolo: | Afro-Nostalgia : Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture / / Badia Ahad-Legardy |
Pubblicazione: | Urbana : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2021 |
©2021 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource |
Disciplina: | 810.9896073 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | "African descent could not experience nostalgia. As a result, black lives have been predominately narrated through historical scenes of slavery 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"-- |
Titolo autorizzato: | Afro-Nostalgia |
ISBN: | 0-252-04366-9 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910838218703321 |
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