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  • Mercy, Mercy Me: African American Culture and the American Sixties

    Mercy, Mercy Me by Hall, James C.;

    African American Culture and the American Sixties

    Series: Race and American Culture;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 22 November 2001

    • ISBN 9780195096095
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages304 pages
    • Size 161x234x24 mm
    • Weight 581 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 11 halftones, 1 line drawing
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    Short description:

    Using an interdisciplinary approach, Hall argues that American artistry in the Sixties can be understood as one of the most vital and compelling interrogations of modernity. Hall finds 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 Beardon, and E.B. DuBois - Mercy, Mercy Me seeks to recover an American tradition of evaluating the 'dialectic of the Enlightenment'.

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    Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book argues that American artistry in the Sixties 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."

    The Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts movement are celebrated as critical moments of racial nationalism and cultural awakening. Questioning the critical consensus about this narrative, however, James Hall reframe[s] these two literary periods in light of transnational and anti-modernist paradigms ... provocative [study] disturbing to our common sense about these seminal eras.

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