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  • The Politics of Black Joy: Zora Neale Hurston and Neo-Abolitionism

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    Description:
    An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and During the antebellum period, slave owners weaponized southern Black joy to argue for enslavement, propagating images of “happy darkies.” In contrast, abolitionists wielded sorrow by emphasizing racial oppression. Both arguments were so effective that a political uneasiness on the subject still lingers. In The Politics of Black Joy, Lindsey Stewart...
    Keyword:
    Frederick Douglass, racial violence, Zora Neale Hurston, southern mythmaking, emancipatory politics, Black joy, segregation, public sphere, and W. E. B. Du Bois
    Subject:
    Philosophy and Literary criticism
    Creator:
    Stewart, Lindsey
    Owner:
    Kirsten Markusic
    Publisher:
    Northwestern University Press
    Date Uploaded:
    03/16/2023
    Date Modified:
    03/16/2023
    Date Created:
    2021
    Resource Type:
    Book
    Alternate Identifier:
    Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4411-8, eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4412-5, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4413-2

  • Original Forgiveness

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    Description:
    This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the Pennsylvania State University. Learn more at the TOME website,... and In Original Forgiveness, Nicolas de Warren challenges the widespread assumption that forgiveness is always a response to something that has incited it. Rather than considering forgiveness exclusively in terms of an encounter between individuals or groups after injury, he argues that availability for the possibility of forgiveness represents an original...
    Keyword:
    phenomenology
    Subject:
    Philosophy
    Creator:
    de Warren, Nicolas
    Owner:
    Chris Diaz
    Publisher:
    Northwestern University Press
    Language:
    English
    Date Uploaded:
    06/01/2020
    Date Modified:
    06/08/2022
    Date Created:
    2020
    Resource Type:
    Book
    Alternate Identifier:
    eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4280-0, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4279-4, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4278-7