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100 1  Spahr, Juliana,|eauthor. 
245 10 Du Bois's telegram :|bliterary resistance and state 
       containment /|cJuliana Spahr. 
264  1 Cambridge, Massachusetts :|bHarvard University Press,
       |c2018. 
264  4 |c©2018 
300    246 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-224) and 
       index. 
505 0  Introduction -- Turn of the twenty-first century : a 
       possible literature of resistance -- Stubborn nationalism 
       : example one, avant garde modernism -- Stubborn 
       nationalism : example two, movement literatures -- Turn of
       the twenty-first century : the national tradition -- 
       Conclusion. 
520    In 1956 W.E.B. Du Bois was denied a passport to attend the
       Présence Africaine Congress of Black Writers and Artists 
       in Paris. So he sent the assembled a telegram. "Any Negro-
       American who travels abroad today must either not discuss 
       race conditions in the United States or say the sort of 
       thing which our State Department wishes the world to 
       believe." Taking seriously Du Bois's allegation, Juliana 
       Spahr breathes new life into age-old questions as she 
       explores how state interests have shaped U.S. literature. 
       What is the relationship between literature and politics? 
       Can writing be revolutionary? Can art be autonomous, or is
       escape from nations and nationalisms impossible? Du Bois's
       Telegram brings together a wide range of institutional 
       forces implicated in literary production, paying special 
       attention to three eras of writing that sought to defy 
       political orthodoxies by contesting linguistic conventions
       : avant-garde modernism of the early twentieth century; 
       social-movement writing of the 1960s and 1970s; and, in 
       the twenty-first century, the profusion of English-
       language works incorporating languages other than English.
       Spahr shows how these literatures attempted to assert 
       their autonomy, only to be shut down by FBI harassment or 
       coopted by CIA and State Department propagandists. Liberal
       state allies such as the Ford and Rockefeller foundations 
       made writers complicit by funding multiculturalist works 
       that celebrated diversity and assimilation while starving 
       radical anti-imperial, anti-racist, anti-capitalist 
       efforts. Spahr does not deny the exhilarations of 
       politically engaged art. But her study affirms a sobering 
       reality: aesthetic resistance is easily domesticated.--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 American literature|xPolitical aspects. 
650  0 Politics and literature|zUnited States. 
650  0 Nationalism and literature|zUnited States. 
650  7 American literature|xPolitical aspects.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst00807225 
650  7 Nationalism and literature.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01033884 
650  7 Politics and literature.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01069960 
651  0 United States. 
651  7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155 
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