Thinking Through Crisis by James Edward Ford

Thinking Through Crisis by James Edward Ford

Winner, 2020 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Modern Language Association
Honorable Mention, MSA First Book Prize

In Thinking Through Crisis, James Edward Ford III examines the works of Richard Wright, Ida B. Wells, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, and Langston Hughes during the 1930s in order to articulate a materialist theory of trauma. Ford highlights the dark proletariat's emergence from the multitude apposite to white supremacist agendas. In these works, Ford argues, proletarian, modernist, and surrealist aesthetics transform fugitive slaves, sharecroppers, leased convicts, levee workers, and activist intellectuals into protagonists of anti-racist and anti-capitalist movements in the United States.
Thinking Through Crisis intervenes in debates on the 1930s, radical subjectivity, and states of emergency. It will be of interest to scholars of American literature, African American literature, proletarian literature, black studies, trauma theory, and political theory.

James Edward Ford III is Associate Professor of English at Occidental College. His writings on the aesthetics of black radicalism, black popular culture, and political theory have appeared in the journals Novel, Biography, Cultural Critique, College Literature, New Centennial Review, ASAP Journal, and multiple edited collections. He is currently working on "Phillis, the Black Swan: Disheveling the Origins" and "Hip-Hop's Late Style: Disheveling the Origins," two projects that rethink the origins and ends of black American cultural production.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780823286911
ISBN 10	0823286916
Title	Thinking Through Crisis
Author	James Edward Ford
Series	Commonalities
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Fordham University Press
Year published	2019-11-05
Number of pages	336
Prizes	Winner of William Sanders Scarborough Prize 2020, Short-listed for Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize 2021
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.