During the nineteenth century, literate Russians and educated American blacks encountered a dominant Western narrative of world civilization that seemed to ignore the histories of Slavs and African Americans. In response, generations of Russian and black American intellectuals have asserted eloquent counterclaims for the cultural significance of a collective national "soul" veiled from prejudiced Western eyes. "Up from Bondage" is the first study to parallel the evolution of Russian and African American cultural nationalism in literary works and philosophical writings. Illuminating a...
During the nineteenth century, literate Russians and educated American blacks encountered a dominant Western narrative of world civilization that seem...
The first systematic comparison of the emergence of cultural nationalism among Russian and African-American intellectuals in the post-emancipation era.
The first systematic comparison of the emergence of cultural nationalism among Russian and African-American intellectuals in the post-emancipation era...
