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Afro-Nostalgia : Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture / Badia Ahad-Legardy.
Author
Ahad-Legardy, Badia
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/Created
Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois, [2021]
©2021
Description
1 online resource
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Subject(s)
American literature
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African American authors
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History and criticism
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Nostalgia in literature
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Happiness in literature
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Series
New Black studies series ; Volume 1.
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New Black Studies Series ; Volume 1
Summary note
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
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.
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ISBN
9780252043666
0252043669
OCLC
1246620975
1252422057
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