An African American Cartoonist behind the Iron Curtain: Ollie Harrington

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

An African American Cartoonist behind the Iron Curtain: Ollie Harrington

Original language description

Oliver Wendell Harrington was called by Langston Hughes America's greatest black cartoonist, yet he has been almost entirely overlooked by most contemporary historians of African American culture. This is because of the peculiar circumstances of his life, largely lived in exile behind the Communist Iron Curtain. Born in 1912 and a graduate of the Yale School of Fine Arts, he was a prolific contributor of humorous and editorial cartoons to the black press in the 1930s and 1940s. He achieved fame for his satires of Harlem society in a panel cartoon called Dark Laughter featuring his character called Bootsie, a wise fool and urban everyman. He served as a war correspondent for the Pittsburgh Courier during World War II and as a director of public relations for the NAACP after the war. In the latter role, Harrington became an outspoken critic of racial injustice in the United States. The investigators of the McCarthy era caused him to travel in 1951 to Paris, where he became the closest friend of novelist Richard Wright, another voluntary exile. In 1961, by accident, he found himself trapped behind the Berlin Wall, where he remained and married. He contributed acerbic political cartoons to East German magazines, which made him a cult figure among students and intellectuals, and to the American Communist paper, the Daily World.

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/EE2.3.20.0150" target="_blank" >EE2.3.20.0150: Literature and Film Without Borders: Dislocation and Relocation in Pluralistic Space</a><br>

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P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

A View form Elsewhere

ISBN

978-80-244-4396-6

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Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

47-56

Publisher name

Univerzita Palackého

Place of publication

Olomouc

Event location

Olomouc

Event date

Jun 20, 2014

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

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