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Afro-Nostalgia
2021
Overview
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.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Subject
ISBN
9780252043666, 0252043669
