[Download] "Afro-Nostalgia" by Badia Ahad-Legardy # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Afro-Nostalgia
- Author : Badia Ahad-Legardy
- Release Date : January 12, 2021
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,Fiction & Literature,Literary Criticism,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 4213 KB
Description
The past as a building block of a more affirming and hopeful future
As early as the eighteenth century, white Americans and Europeans believed that people of African descent could not experience nostalgia. As a result, black lives have been predominately narrated through historical scenes of slavery and oppression. This phenomenon created a missing archive of romantic historical memories.
Badia Ahad-Legardy mines literature, visual culture, performance, and culinary arts to form an archive of black historical joy for use by the African-descended. Her analysis reveals how contemporary black artists find more than trauma and subjugation within the historical past. Drawing on contemporary African American culture and recent psychological studies, Ahad-Legardy reveals nostalgia’s capacity to produce positive emotions. Afro-nostalgia emerges as an expression of black romantic recollection that creates and inspires good feelings even within our darkest moments.
Original and provocative, Afro-Nostalgia offers black historical pleasure as a remedy to contend with the disillusionment of the present and the traumas of the past.
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