Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers: African Diaspora Literary Culture and the Cultural Cold War by Tolliver, Cedric

Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers: African Diaspora Literary Culture and the Cultural Cold War (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780472074051)

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Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers: African Diaspora Literary Culture and the Cultural Cold War by Tolliver, Cedric

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

$79.95
Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers: African Diaspora Literary Culture and the Cultural Cold War by Tolliver, Cedric

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

$79.95
Format: Hardcover
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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.


Author: Cedric Tolliver
ISBN-10: 0472074059
ISBN-13: 9780472074051
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2019
Pages: 244
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2020
By Cedric Tolliver
By Cedric Tolliver
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Cedric R. Tolliver is Associate Professor of English, University of Houston.

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