Mercy, mercy me : African-American culture and the American sixties / James C. Hall.

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Hall, James C, 1960-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Race and American culturePublication details: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.Description: 1 online resource (x, 293 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780195096095
0195096096
9780198025627
0198025629
1280451157
9781280451157
9786610451159
661045115X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mercy, mercy me.DDC classification:

973/.0496073 21

LOC classification:

E185.61 .H1972 2001eb

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02.01
15.85

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Contents:

African-American antimodernism and the American sixties -- Mourning song: Robert Hayden and the politics of memory -- Modern doubt to antimodern commitment: Paule Marshall and William Demby -- Meditations: John Coltrane and freedom -- The prevalence of ritual in an age of change: Romare Bearden -- W.E.B. Du Bois and dedication to the dead -- What's going on : "the most truly modern of all people."

Summary: 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."

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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."

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