Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture Volume 1 by Ahad-Legardy, Badia

Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture Volume 1

The past as a building block of a more affirming and hopeful future As early as the...
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Author: Badia Ahad-Legardy
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Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture Volume 1 by Ahad-Legardy, Badia

Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture Volume 1

Dhs. 242.99

Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture Volume 1

Dhs. 242.99
Author: Badia Ahad-Legardy
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.



Author: Badia Ahad-Legardy
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 04/12/2021
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780252085666


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 02/05/2021 pg. 1

About the Author
Badia Ahad-Legardy is an associate professor in the Department of English and Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at Loyola University Chicago. She is the author of Freud Upside Down: African American Literature and Psychoanalytic Culture.

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