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Law in literature. --- Law enforcement in literature. --- Race discrimination in literature. --- Baldwin, James, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Race discrimination in literature. --- Segregation in literature. --- African Americans in literature. --- American literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- History and criticism. --- African American authors

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Thinking through Crisis turns to 1930s African American literature to offer a critical response to Trauma Theory. This theoretical discourse carries a nostalgia for "European Man" that limits its understanding of racial and class antagonisms. Consequently, its version of "bearing witness" yields a political passivity that cannot address the injustices of racism as they are linked to class conflict. Against the political passivity produced by this idealist approach, this book offers a materialist theory of trauma that develops concepts for identifying the agency that Black life produces amid social breakdown.

American literature --- Depressions in literature. --- Race discrimination in literature. --- Literature and state --- Distress (Psychology) in literature. --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- History --- 1900-1999

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"In A Question of Character, Cathy Boeckmann establishes a strong link between racial questions and the development of literary traditions at the end of the 19th century in America. This period saw the rise of "scientific racism," which claimed that the races were distinguished not solely by exterior appearance but also by a set of inherited character traits. As Boeckmann explains, this emphasis on character meant that race was not only a thematic concern in the literature of the period but also a generic or formal one as well." "Boeckmann explores the intersections between race and literary history by tracing the language of character through both scientific and literary writing."--Jacket.

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