Afro-Nostalgia Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture /
"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, perform...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
2021.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (pages cm) |
| ISBN: | 9780252052552 0252052552 |
