Political disappointment : a cultural history from Reconstruction to the AIDS crisis /

Political disappointment : a cultural history from Reconstruction to the AIDS crisis / Sara Marcus.

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"Sara Marcus argues for the emancipatory potential of political disappointment-the unrealized desire for liberation. Exploring literature and sound from Reconstruction to Black Power, from the Popular Front to second-wave feminism and the AIDS crisis, Marcus shows how moments of defeat have ins...

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Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Main Author: Marcus, Sara, 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2023.
Subjects:
1800-1999
American literature > Political aspects.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Music and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
Music and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Disappointment > Political aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Disappointment > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Loss and American culture
  • Failures of the Reconstruction : History and disappointment
  • Transcribing solidarity : The Popular Front and its afterlives
  • "I stand mute" : Civil rights cacophony and quiet
  • Senses of solidarity : Voice, vision, and feminism in crisis
  • The ancestors' breath : AIDS and aural coalitions
  • Coda.

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