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035			_a(OCoLC)984686430
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050		4	_aE185.6 _b.R36 2016
072		7	_aLIT004040 _2bisacsh
082	0	4	_a323.1196/073 _223
084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aRasberry, Vaughn _eautore
245	1	0	_aRace and the Totalitarian Century : _bGeopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination / _cVaughn Rasberry.
264		1	_aCambridge, MA : _bHarvard University Press, _c[2017]
264		4	_c©2016
300			_a1 online resource (410 p.) : _b4 halftones
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tIntroduction -- _tPart One: Race and the Totalitarian Century -- _t1. The Figure of the Negro Soldier -- _t2. Our Totalitarian Critics: Desegregation, Decolonization, and the Cold War -- _t3. The Twilight of Empire: The Suez Canal Crisis of 1956 and the Black Public Sphere -- _tPart Two: How to Build Socialist Modernity in the Third World -- _t4. The Right to Fail: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Communist Hypothesis -- _t5. From Nkrumah’s Ghana to Nasser’s Egypt: Shirley Graham as Partisan -- _t6. Bandung or Barbarism: Richard Wright on Terror in Freedom -- _tConclusion: Memory and Paranoia -- _tNotes -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tIndex
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aFew concepts evoke the twentieth century’s record of war, genocide, repression, and extremism more powerfully than the idea of totalitarianism. Today, studies of the subject are usually confined to discussions of Europe’s collapse in World War II or to comparisons between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. In Race and the Totalitarian Century, Vaughn Rasberry parts ways with both proponents and detractors of these normative conceptions in order to tell the strikingly different story of how black American writers manipulated the geopolitical rhetoric of their time. During World War II and the Cold War, the United States government conscripted African Americans into the fight against Nazism and Stalinism. An array of black writers, however, deflected the appeals of liberalism and its antitotalitarian propaganda in the service of decolonization. Richard Wright, W. E. B. Du Bois, Shirley Graham, C. L. R. James, John A. Williams, and others remained skeptical that totalitarian servitude and democratic liberty stood in stark opposition. Their skepticism allowed them to formulate an independent perspective that reimagined the antifascist, anticommunist narrative through the lens of racial injustice, with the United States as a tyrannical force in the Third World but also as an ironic agent of Asian and African independence. Bringing a new interpretation to events such as the Bandung Conference of 1955 and the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956, Rasberry’s bird’s-eye view of black culture and politics offers an alternative history of the totalitarian century.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021)
650		0	_aAfrican American authors _xPolitical activity _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _xPolitics and government _xPhilosophy.
650		0	_aGeopolitics in literature.
650		0	_aPolitics and literature _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aRacism _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aTotalitarianism and literature.
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / African-American. _2bisacsh
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.4159/9780674973015
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674973015
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