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Author Purcell, Richard, 1974- author.

Title Race, Ralph Ellison and American Cold War intellectual culture / Richard Purcell
Published [Basingstoke] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Language, discourse, society
Language, discourse, society.
Contents Introduction: From Popular Fronts to Liberal Conspiracies -- Figura of a Negro Problem -- Ellison from the Heart of Europe -- 1965 and the Battle Over Who Speaks for the Negro -- An Integrative Vernacular -- Ellison, Obama and Post-Race Politics in the 21st Century
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Ellison, Ralph -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Ellison, Ralph fast
Ellison, Ralph 1913-1994 gnd
Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Black & Asian studies -- English -- USA.
Literary studies: from c 1900 -- English -- USA.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Literature.
American literature
Literature and society
Race relations
Ethnische Beziehungen
Schwarze
Geistesleben
Ethnic studies -- United States of America, USA -- English -- 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999.
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 -- United States of America, USA -- English -- 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999.
Literature.
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Subject United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781137313843
1137313846
9780230321434
0230321437
134934043X
9781349340439