1st Edition
Troubling Beginnings Trans(per)forming African American History and Identity
By Maurice Stevens
Copyright 2003
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.
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
Biography
Maurice Stevens
