Race and the totalitarian century : geopolitics in the Black literary imagination /

Few concepts evoke the twentieth century's record of total war, genocide, repression, and extremism more powerfully than the idea of totalitarianism: the ideological core of narratives of World War II and the Cold War. Yet the totalitarian experience, this book contends, shaped and was shaped b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rasberry, Vaughn (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2016.
Temas:
1900-1999
African American authors > Political activity > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Politics and government > Philosophy.
Totalitarianism and literature.
Geopolitics in literature.
Racism > History > 20th century.
Politics and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Écrivains noirs américains > Activité politique > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains > Politique et gouvernement > Philosophie.
Totalitarisme et littérature.
Géopolitique dans la littérature.
Racisme > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Politique et littérature > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American
Geopolitics in literature
Politics and literature
Racism
Totalitarianism and literature
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Free Worlds
  • Part One. Race and the totalitarian century
  • The figure of the Negro soldier: racial democracy and world war
  • Our totalitarian critics: desegregation, decolonization, and the Cold War
  • The twilight of empire: the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956 and the Black public sphere
  • Part Two. How to build socialist modernity in the third world
  • The right to fail: W.E.B. Du Bois and the communist hypothesis
  • From Nkrumah's Ghana to Nasser's Egypt: Shirley Graham as partisan
  • Bandung or barbarism: Richard Wright on terror in freedom
  • Conclusion: Memory and paranoia.

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