001480513 000__ 05071nam\a22006855i\4500 001480513 001__ 1480513 001480513 003__ DE-B1597 001480513 005__ 20231026034750.0 001480513 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001480513 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001480513 008__ 210824t20172016mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001480513 020__ $$a9780674973015 001480513 0247_ $$a10.4159/9780674973015$$2doi 001480513 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)479789 001480513 035__ $$a(OCoLC)984686430 001480513 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001480513 0410_ $$aeng 001480513 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001480513 050_4 $$aE185.6$$b.R36 2016 001480513 072_7 $$aLIT004040$$2bisacsh 001480513 08204 $$a323.1196/073$$223 001480513 1001_ $$aRasberry, Vaughn, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001480513 24510 $$aRace and the Totalitarian Century :$$bGeopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination /$$cVaughn Rasberry. 001480513 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2017] 001480513 264_4 $$c©2016 001480513 300__ $$a1 online resource (410 p.) :$$b4 halftones 001480513 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001480513 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001480513 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001480513 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001480513 50500 $$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 001480513 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001480513 520__ $$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. 001480513 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001480513 546__ $$aIn English. 001480513 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021) 001480513 650_0 $$aAfrican American authors$$xPolitical activity$$xHistory$$y20th century. 001480513 650_0 $$aAfrican Americans$$xPolitics and government$$xPhilosophy. 001480513 650_0 $$aGeopolitics in literature. 001480513 650_0 $$aPolitics and literature$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y20th century. 001480513 650_0 $$aRacism$$xHistory$$y20th century. 001480513 650_0 $$aTotalitarianism and literature. 001480513 650_7 $$aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / African-American.$$2bisacsh 001480513 655_0 $$aElectronic books 001480513 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tHarvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016$$z9783110638585 001480513 852__ $$bebk 001480513 85640 $$3De Gruyter$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674973015$$zOnline Access 001480513 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1480513$$pGLOBAL_SET 001480513 912__ $$a978-3-11-063858-5 Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016$$b2016 001480513 912__ $$aGBV-deGruyter-alles 001480513 980__ $$aBIB 001480513 980__ $$aEBOOK 001480513 982__ $$aEbook 001480513 983__ $$aOnline