New book on U.S. cultural diplomacy

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  • [via RR - many thanks!]

Telling America's Story to the World

Literature, Internationalism, Cultural Diplomacy

Harilaos Stecopoulos

Oxford Studies in American Literary History

  • The first study to demonstrate that US cultural diplomacy played an important role in the making of postwar US literature
  • Draws on extensive archival and historical research in its examination of over sixty years of literary ambassadorship
  • Includes the first scholarly analysis of Langston Hughes's service as a US literary ambassador
  • Provides a historical account of the US-China Writers' Conferences (1982-1988)

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
1:The Good Neighbor Theory of American Literature: Archibald MacLeish and "the New World" of the United Nations
2:"Chau-vin-ism! Con-form-ity! Self-de-termi-nation! Freeeeeeeeee-dom!" Ralph Ellison, Robert Lowell, and Occupied Salzburg
3:People to People, Writers to Writers: William Faulkner, the Snopes Problem, and Middlebrow Internationalism
4:Diasporic Diplomacy: Langston Hughes, the Africa Propaganda Campaign, and Black Literary Internationalism
5:Republic of Letters, Cockpit of Controversy: Arthur Miller, PEN International, and Literary Détente
6:"A Harvest of Conversations Among Multitudes": Maxine Hong Kingston, Wittman Ah Sing, and the US-China Writers' Conferences
Coda: Multicultural Diplomacy
Bibliography

Published: 03 November 2022

320 Pages

234x156mm

ISBN: 9780192864635

Comments

  1. Harry StecopoulosOctober 23, 2022 at 2:38 PM

    Thanks, John.

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    1. John Brown's Notes and Essays, including on Public DiplomacyOctober 26, 2022 at 1:39 PM

      Harry -- Thank you for your kind note. BTW, you may be interested in the writings/career of my dear departed father https://findingaids.library.georgetown.edu/repositories/15/resources/10263 Best, john

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