Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers: African Diaspora Literary Culture and the Cultural Cold War

Author:   Cedric Tolliver
Publisher:   The University of Michigan Press
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Pages:   244
Publication Date:   01 November 2019
Format:   Hardback
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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.

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Author:   Cedric Tolliver
Publisher:   The University of Michigan Press
Imprint:   The University of Michigan Press
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9780472074051


ISBN 10:   0472074059
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   01 November 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Expertly bringing Black diaspora studies and critical race theory to bear on the Cold War's culture wars, Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers shows why and how culture became a primary site of imperialist and anticolonial struggle in the U.S., Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean after World War II. Cedric Tolliver's study of the institutional, literary, and interpersonal connections between Anglophone and Francophone writers is a tremendous contribution to scholarship on the U.S. left, race radicalism, and postcolonial and African diasporic literature. - Cheryl Higashida, University of Colorado Exciting and cutting-edge... challenges binary notions of ideological adherence and complicates the political investments that major writers and thinkers of the African diaspora made during the era, as it crosses national and regional boundaries, thereby underscoring the steady communication and flows of influence during this period, beyond linguistic and national parameters. - Pim Higginson, University of New Mexico


Exciting and cutting-edge... challenges binary notions of ideological adherence and complicates the political investments that major writers and thinkers of the African diaspora made during the era, as it crosses national and regional boundaries, thereby underscoring the steady communication and flows of influence during this period, beyond linguistic and national parameters. -Pim Higginson, University of New Mexico ? Expertly bringing Black diaspora studies and critical race theory to bear on the Cold War's culture wars, Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers shows why and how culture became a primary site of imperialist and anticolonial struggle in the U.S., Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean after World War II. Cedric Tolliver's study of the institutional, literary, and interpersonal connections between Anglophone and Francophone writers is a tremendous contribution to scholarship on the U.S. left, race radicalism, and postcolonial and African diasporic literature. -Cheryl Higashida, University of Colorado


A 2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title--CHOICE Choice Outstanding Academic Title (12/1/2020 12:00:00 AM) Exciting and cutting-edge... challenges binary notions of ideological adherence and complicates the political investments that major writers and thinkers of the African diaspora made during the era, as it crosses national and regional boundaries, thereby underscoring the steady communication and flows of influence during this period, beyond linguistic and national parameters. -Pim Higginson, University of New Mexico ? Expertly bringing Black diaspora studies and critical race theory to bear on the Cold War's culture wars, Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers shows why and how culture became a primary site of imperialist and anticolonial struggle in the U.S., Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean after World War II. Cedric Tolliver's study of the institutional, literary, and interpersonal connections between Anglophone and Francophone writers is a tremendous contribution to scholarship on the U.S. left, race radicalism, and postcolonial and African diasporic literature. -Cheryl Higashida, University of Colorado In this fascinating and important work, Tolliver (Univ. of Houston) argues that in the capitalist system racial discrimination is inextricably tied to economic exploitation... Highly recommended. --CHOICE--A. S. Newson-Horst CHOICE (7/1/2020 12:00:00 AM)


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Cedric R. Tolliver is Associate Professor of English, University of Houston.

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