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Race, Ralph Ellison and American Cold War Intellectual Culture

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. Richard Purcell

    1. Carnegie Mellon University, USA

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Part of the book series: Language, Discourse, Society (LDS)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction: From Popular Fronts to Liberal Conspiracies

    • Richard Purcell
    Pages 1-25

  3. Figura of a Negro Problem

    • Richard Purcell
    Pages 26-58

  4. Ellison From the Heart of Europe

    • Richard Purcell
    Pages 59-89

  5. 1965 and the Battle Over Who Spoke for the Negro

    • Richard Purcell
    Pages 90-115

  6. An Integrative Vernacular

    • Richard Purcell
    Pages 116-143

  7. Conclusion: Ellison, Obama and Post-Race Politics in the Twenty-First Century

    • Richard Purcell
    Pages 144-163

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 164-200
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While the arms race of the post-war period has been widely discussed, Purcell explores the under-acknowledged but critical role another kind of 'race' – that is, race as a biological and sociological concept – played within the global and cultural Cold War.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Carnegie Mellon University, USA

    Richard Purcell

About the author

Richard Purcell is Associate Professor in the Literary and Cultural Studies Program at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. His field of study is twentieth century and twenty-first century American literature, literary criticism and critical theory. He has secondary interests in African-American literature, Film Studies and Cold War Studies.
 
 
 
 

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