Table des matières

Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry et Claudine Raynaud

Préface

Liste des illustrations

I. L'événement et son écriture/writing the Event

Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry et Claudine Raynaud

Writing the Event, (Re)interpreting the Civil Rights Movement: An Introduction

• 1. The Civil Rights Movement as a Historical Event
• 2. Making Sense of the Civil Rights Movement
• 3. Black Times: (Re)Writing the Civil Rights Movement
• Conclusion

Arlette Farge

Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry et Porter P. Lowry II (trad.)

Of the Event

• 1. Undoing the Obvious
• 2. The Word, Testimony, and Memory
• 3. With Michel Foucault: Making Fun of Origins?

II. Les temps de l'histoire/the times of history

Martha Biondi

(Pre)figuring the 1960s “Urban crisis”: The Fate of the African American Rights Struggle in Postwar New York City

Hélène Christol

Writing History: Time and Event in Bobby Seale’s Seize the Time

Françoise Clary

Myth and Irony in the Aftermath of the Civil Rights: The Undercurrents of Black Experience in Hal Bennett’s Lord of Dark Places

• 1. Sociological Distance and Aesthetic Perception of the Revolutionary Potential of Black Power
• 2. Perspectival and Metaphorical Knowledge
• 3. Black Cultural Nation, Black Voice
• 4. From Black Religious Cults to the “Blue Blues”

III. Histoires, spectacles et mémoire/stories, spectacles and memory

Eve Bantman-Masum

“A New Country but the Same Old Racism?” Miriam Makeba, le mouvement des droits civiques et les limites de l’engagement

• 1. Une chanteuse sud-africaine, égérie du public américain
• 2. Une artiste engagée qui compare les Etats-Unis et l’Afrique du Sud
• 3. La réécriture de l’histoire ou les limites de l’engagement

Claude Julien

The Emmett Till Case and Fiction Writing

• 1. History
• 2. Stories and History
• 4. Textual strategies—social metaphors

Cheryl Finley

1969: Black Art and the Aesthetics of Memory

• 1. Soul Searching
• 2. Amiri Baraka and the Development of Revolutionary Theatre
• 3. Slave Ship: a Historical Pageant
• 4. Malcolm Bailey: Separate but Equal
• Coda: “A Theology of Remembrance”

IV. Événement(s) entre continuité et rupture/event(s) between continuity and rupture

William L. Van Deburg

White Conspiracies Against Black Empowerment

• 1. Macabre Medical Research
• 2. Fatal Food and Drugs

Alice Mills

“Don't Give a Damn if They Held a Thousand Pistols at your Skull. You Shouldn't Have Done it”: Revolutionary Black Theater and Women

Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry

The Moynihan Report as an Event: From the Civil Rights Movement to the Writing of History

• 1. The Moynihan Report as a Product of its Time
• 2. A Polemical Report: Criticism and Controversy
• 3. The Moynihan Report and the Historiography of the African-American Community
• Conclusion

Maïca Sanconie

Les Peintres noirs américains dans les années soixante et l’alternative des groupes

• 1. Black Arts Movement
• 2. Spiral
• 3. O.B.A.C.: Organization of Black American Culture
• 4. AFRICOBRA: African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists
• 5. Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (B.E.C.C.)
• 6. “Where We At” Black Women artists (WWA)
• 7. Les galeries communautaires

Auteurs par ordre alphabétique

Résumés/Abstracts par ordre de parution dans le volume

• Ariette FARGE, “Of the Event”
• Martha BIONDI, “(Pre) figuring the 1960s ‘Urban Crisis’: The Fate of the African-American Rights Struggle in Postwar New York City”
• Hélène CHRISTOL, “Writing History: Time and Event in Bobby Seale’s Seize the Time”
• Françoise CLARY, “Myth and Irony in the Aftermath of the Civil Rights: The Undercurrents of Black Experience in Hal Bennett ‘s Lord of Dark Places”
• Eve BANTMAN-MASUM, «A New Country But the Same Old Racism? Miriam Makeba, le mouvement des droits civiques et les limites de l’engagement»
• Claude JULIEN, “The Emmett Till Case and Fiction Writing”
• Cheryl FINLEY, “1969: Black Art and the Aesthetics of Memory”
• William L. VAN DEBURG, “White Conspiracies Against Black Empowerment”
• Alice MILLS, “’Don’t Give a Damn If They Held a Thousand Pistol at your Skull. You Shouldn’t Have Done It:’ Revolutionary Black Theater and Women”
• Hélène LE DANTEC-LOWRY, “The Moynihan Report as an Event: From the Civil Rights Movement to the (Re)writing of History”
• Maïca SANCONIE, « Les peintres noirs américains dans les années 1960 et l’alternative des groupes »