Troubling beginnings : trans(per)forming African-American history and identity

Author(s)

• Stevens, Maurice E.

Bibliographic Information

Troubling beginnings : trans(per)forming African-American history and identity

Maurice E. Stevens

（Studies in African American history and culture）

Routledge, 2003

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-185) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This interdisciplinary and creative study examines how African American culture is presented in American films and other media, and is a provocative re-reading of the historiography of black culture. 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.

Table of Contents

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

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Details

• NCID: BA69085150
• ISBN:
  • 0415947995
• LCCN: 2003017038
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: vii, 192 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : E185.625
  • DC22 : 305.896/073
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : African Americans -- Race identity
  • LCSH : African Americans -- History -- Philosophy
  • LCSH : African Americans -- Intellectual life
  • LCSH : African American arts
  • LCSH : Performing arts -- United States
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA19972850