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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Purcell, Richard (1974-....)
Titre(s) : Race, Ralph Ellison and American Cold war intellectual culture [Texte imprimé] / Richard Purcell
Publication : Basingstoke (GB) ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VII-200 p.) ; 23 cm
Collection : Language, discourse, society
Lien à la collection : Language, discourse, society
Comprend : Machine generated contents note: ; Acknowledgements Introduction: From Popular Fronts
to Liberal Conspiracies 1. Figura of a Negro Problem 2. Ellison from the Heart of
Europe 3. 1965 and the Battle Over Who Speaks for the Negro 4. An Integrative Vernacular
5. Ellison, Obama and Post-Race Politics in the 21st Century Notes Bibliography Index.
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p.183-194. Index
"After World War II, writers and literary critics - black and white - engaged in heated
debates centred on the literary and imaginative problem of representing African-Americans
in American literature. As the Cold War unfolded, many of these debates began to appear
in journals, conferences and other events, including those directly sponsored by the
Congress for Cultural Freedom and other organisations funded by U.S. and British intelligence
agencies. Ralph Ellison, who would eventually join the American Congress for Cultural
Freedom, was one of the most famous and frequently published critics on the 'Negro
Problem' in literature during this period. Using never before published materials
from Ralph Ellison's papers at the Library of Congress, Purcell contextualises his
thinking on the Negro Problem - in particular its bearing on American literary history,
Modernism and broader American geo-politics - within the shadow of the CCF's influence.
Therefore, not only does the book explore how the Cold War's ideological battles influenced
these debates, it illuminates the important role 'race' and more specifically African-American
writers and intellectuals played in the cultural Cold War"
Sujet(s) : Ellison, Ralph (1914-1994) -- Pensée politique et sociale
Littérature et société -- États-Unis -- 1945-....
Relations interethniques -- États-Unis -- 1945-....
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780230321434 (hardback). - ISBN 0230321437 (hardback)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb436599327
Notice n° :
FRBNF43659932
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