African American Literature and African American Studies in China, 1933–1977: Contacts, Translation, and Literary Internationalism
| dc.contributor.advisor | Yoshihara, Mari | |
| dc.contributor.author | Li, Guoqian | |
| dc.contributor.department | American Studies | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-02-26T20:13:47Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.description.degree | Ph.D. | |
| dc.embargo.liftdate | 2024-08-23 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10125/107865 | |
| dc.subject | African American studies | |
| dc.title | African American Literature and African American Studies in China, 1933–1977: Contacts, Translation, and Literary Internationalism | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| dcterms.abstract | This dissertation explores the introduction and translation of African American literature and African American studies in China from 1933 to 1977. It will show that Chinese intellectuals’ interest in Black America was driven by their contact with Black American artists, writers, and activists such as Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, and W. E. B. Du Bois in the international conferences, ranging from Comintern Congresses in the late 1920s and World Peace Conferences in the 1940s to Afro-Asian Writers’ Conferences in the late 1950s and 1960s. The trajectory of Chinese intellectuals’ exploration of Black American activism through literature reflects China’s foreign relations with the United States, the Soviet Union, and the Third World. On the one hand, the study of African American literature and activism in China, from the publication of Black Literature by Yang Changxi to Yang Shengmao’s Black American Liberation Movement: A Brief History, was shaped by the political imperatives from the 1930s to 1970s, which were imbued with nationalist sentiments, Cold War tensions, anti-imperialism, and decolonization movements. On the other hand, Chinese intellectuals’ study of African American literature and culture reflected the rise of the Black American liberation movement within the United States and the rise of black internationalism and the global resistance movement against capitalist imperialism. The dissertation traces how Chinese intellectuals from Republican China to Communist China engaged in these movements and how their study, although imprinted with nationalist ideologies, comprises a part of the broader history of Afro-Asian solidarity and global liberation. | |
| dcterms.extent | 221 pages | |
| dcterms.language | en | |
| dcterms.publisher | University of Hawai'i at Manoa | |
| dcterms.rights | All UHM dissertations and theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission from the copyright owner. | |
| dcterms.type | Text | |
| local.identifier.alturi | http://dissertations.umi.com/hawii:12009 |
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