The Black Pacific narrative
Subtitle: geographic imaginings of race and empire between the World Wars
By: Etsuko Taketani
Series: Re-mapping the transnational : a Dartmouth series in American studies; Re-mapping the transnational
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781611686128; 9781611686135
Subjects: Politics and government; Intellectual life; History and criticism; American literature; Relations; Race in literature; African American authors; Imperialism in literature; Internationalism; In literature; African Americans; Geopolitics; History
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The cartography of the Black Pacific : James Weldon Johnson's Along this way; title: Colored empires in the 1930s : Black internationalism, the US Black press, and George S. Schuyler; title: The swing and the sword in the Black Mikados : an Afro-Japanese nexus in the US (white) Pacific imagination; title: "Spies and spiders" : Langston Hughes and the transpacific intelligence dragnet; title: The Manchurian philosopher : W.E.B. Du Bois in the Eurasian Pacific; title: Epilogue.