Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain - Reading Encounters between Black and Red, 1922-1963

"In "Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain," Kate A. Baldwin has presented the hitherto ignored Soviet response to African American intellectuals and cultural workers. This is an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to understand the intellectual and political range of African America in the twentieth century."--Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, author of "A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present "

Sommario

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Demand for a New Kind of Person: Black Americans and the Soviet Union, 1922-1963

1. “Not at All God’s White People”: McKay and the Negro in Red

2. Between Harlem and Harlem: Hughes and the Ways of the Veil

3. Du Bois, Russia, and the “Refusal to Be ‘White’”

4. Black Shadows across the Iron Curtain: Robeson’s Stance between Cold War Cultures

Epilogue: The Only Television Hostess Who Doesn’t Turn Red

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Info autore

Kate A. Baldwin is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame.

Riassunto

Examining the significant influence of the Soviet Union on the work of four major African American authors - and on twentieth-century American debates about race, this book remaps black modernism revealing the importance of the Soviet experience in the formation of a black transnationalism.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Baldwin, Kate A Baldwin, Kate A. Baldwin, Kate A. Baldwin
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 17.10.2002
• EAN: 9780822329763
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2976-3
• Pagine: 360
• Peso: 771 g
• Illustrazioni: 19 b&w photos
• Serie: New Americanists; New Americanists
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Etnologia > Etnologia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese; Osteuropa, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, UdSSR, Sowjetunion