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Thinking through crisis : depression-era Black literature, theory, and politics /

In Thinking Through Crisis, James Edward Ford III examines the works of Richard Wright, Ida B. Wells, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes during the 1930s in order to articulate a materialist theory of trauma. Ford highlights the dark proletariat's emergence from the multit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ford, James Edward (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Fordham University Press, [2020].
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	Commonalities.
Subjects:	American literature > African American authors > History and criticism. American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Depressions > 1929 > United States. United States > Race relations.

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