{"product_id":"of-vagabonds-and-fellow-travelers-9780472054053","title":"Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecovers the history of the writers, artists, and intellectuals of the African diaspora who, witnessing a transition to an American-dominated capitalist world-system during the Cold War, offered searing critiques of burgeoning US hegemony.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExpertly bringing Black diaspora studies and critical race theory to bear on the Cold War's culture wars, \u003ci\u003eOf Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers\u003c\/i\u003e shows why and how culture became a primary site of imperialist and anticolonial struggle in the U.S., Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean after World War II. Cedric Tolliver's study of the institutional, literary, and interpersonal connections between Anglophone and Francophone writers is a tremendous contribution to scholarship on the U.S. left, race radicalism, and postcolonial and African diasporic literature.\" - Cheryl Higashida, University of Colorado\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Exciting and cutting-edge challenges binary notions of ideological adherence and complicates the political investments that major writers and thinkers of the African diaspora made during the era, as it crosses national and regional boundaries, thereby underscoring the steady communication and flows of influence during this period, beyond linguistic and national parameters.\" - Pim Higginson, University of New Mexico","brand":"The University of Michigan Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037095919959,"sku":"9780472054053","price":19.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780472054053.jpg?v=1750934393","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/of-vagabonds-and-fellow-travelers-9780472054053","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}