Mercy, Mercy Me: African-American Culture and the American SixtiesOxford University Press, 19 באוק׳ 2001 - 304 עמודים Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book argues that American artistry in the 1960s can be understood as one of the most vital and compelling interrogations of modernity. James C. Hall finds that the legacy of slavery and the resistance to it have by necessity made African Americans among the most incisive critics and celebrants of the Enlightenment inheritance. Focusing on the work of six individuals--Robert Hayden, William Demby, Paule Marshall, John Coltrane, Romare Bearden, and W.E.B. DuBois--Mercy, Mercy Me seeks to recover an American tradition of evaluating the "dialectic of the Enlightenment." |
תוכן
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Mourning Song Robert Hayden and the Politics of Memory | 39 |
Modern Doubt to Antimodern Commitment Paule Marshall and William Demby | 78 |
Meditations John Coltrane and Freedom | 113 |
The Prevalence of Ritual in an Age of Change Romare Bearden | 151 |
WEB Du Bois and Dedication to the Dead | 187 |
Whats Going On? The Most Truly Modern of All People | 225 |
Notes | 231 |
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Mercy, Mercy Me: African-American Culture and the American Sixties <span dir=ltr>James C. Hall</span> תצוגה מקדימה מוגבלת - 2001 |
Mercy, Mercy Me: African-American Culture and the American Sixties <span dir=ltr>James C. Hall</span> תצוגה מקדימה מוגבלת - 2001 |
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עמוד vii - To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it 'the way it really was' (Ranke). It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.
עמוד vi - There is a moment, in the history of every nation, when, proceeding out of this brute youth, the perceptive powers reach their ripeness, and have not yet become microscopic : so...