Troubling Beginnings: Trans(per)forming African American History and Identity / Edition 1

by Maurice Stevens

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415947992
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/16/2003
Series:	Studies in African American History and Culture
Pages:	202
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

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