The Black Pacific narrative : geographic imaginings of race and empire between the world wars / Etsuko Taketani.
Series: Re-mapping the transnationalPublisher: Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, [2014]Copyright date: �2014Description: 1 online resource (283 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781611686128 (cloth : alkaline paper)
- 9781611686135 (paperback : alkaline paper)
- 9781611686142 (e-book)
- American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism
- African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- Race in literature
- Imperialism in literature
- African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- Internationalism -- History -- 20th century
- Geopolitics -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Pacific Area -- In literature
- United States -- Relations -- Pacific Area
- Pacific Area -- Relations -- United States
- 810.9/896073 23
- PS153.N5 T35 2014eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The cartography of the Black Pacific : James Weldon Johnson's Along this way -- Colored empires in the 1930s : Black internationalism, the US Black press, and George S. Schuyler -- The swing and the sword in the Black Mikados : an Afro-Japanese nexus in the US (white) Pacific imagination -- "Spies and spiders" : Langston Hughes and the transpacific intelligence dragnet -- The Manchurian philosopher : W.E.B. Du Bois in the Eurasian Pacific -- Epilogue.
"About a shift in geographic imaginings that occurred in African American culture as the United States evolved into a bioceanic global power"--Provided by publisher.
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