Maurice Stevens

Troubling Beginnings

Trans(per)forming African American History and Identity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This interdisciplinary and creative study examines how African American culture is presented in American films and other media. The author examines and interprets a number of cultural texts deriving memory as interpreted by Freud and by Franz Fanon, mixed with Black Liberation Theology and Islamic mysticism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 281g
• ISBN-13: 9781138986206
• ISBN-10: 1138986208
• Artikelnr.: 57051850

Autorenporträt

Maurice Stevens

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Ambivalence of Identity Politics 2. Liberating Theologies:
Ibn-Arabi's Bezels and James Cone's Christ 3. Flesh and Facts: Towards a
Critical Psychoanalysis 4. Freeing Films: Reading Sankofa, Malcolm X and
Panther 5. The Power to Trans(per)form