Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Black (World) Reconstruction and the Cultural Cold War
Chapter 1. Reorienting the Cardinal Points: Présence Africaine and the Centripetal Pull of the Cultural Cold War
Chapter 2. Setting the Cold War Stage: George Lamming, Jacques Stephen Alexis, and the Critique of U.S. Imperialism in the Caribbean
Chapter 3. Fellow Travelers, Treacherous Ground: Strategic Critique in the Black Press Writing of Langston Hughes and Alice Childress
Chapter 4. Black Radical Vagabond: Paul Robeson’s Cold War Ordeal
Chapter 5. Crisis and Rupture: African American Literary Culture and the Response to Patrice Lumumba’s Assassination
Notes
Bibliography
Index