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Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers
Cedric Tolliver
其他書名
African Diaspora Literary Culture and the Cultural Cold War
出版University of Michigan Press, 2019-10-17
主題Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / American / African American & BlackSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black StudiesHistory / United States / 20th Century
ISBN04720540589780472054053
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=9wCsDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers recovers the history of the writers, artists, and intellectuals of the African diaspora who, witnessing a transition to an American-dominated capitalist world-system during the Cold War, offered searing critiques of burgeoning U.S. hegemony. Cedric R. Tolliver traces this history through an analysis of signal events and texts where African diaspora literary culture intersects with the wider cultural Cold War, from the First Congress of Black Writers and Artists organized by Francophone intellectuals in September 1956 to the reverberations among African American writers and activists to the assassination of Patrice Lumumba. Among Tolliver’s subjects are Caribbean writers Jacques Stephen Alexis, George Lamming, and Aimé Césaire, the black press writing of Alice Childress and Langston Hughes, and the ordeal of Paul Robeson, among other topics. The book’s final chapter highlights the international and domestic consequences of the cultural Cold War and discusses their lingering effects on our contemporary critical predicament.