An African American Cartoonist behind the Iron Curtain: Ollie Harrington

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

An African American Cartoonist behind the Iron Curtain: Ollie Harrington

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

An African American Cartoonist behind the Iron Curtain: Ollie Harrington

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

AJ - Písemnictví, mas–media, audiovize

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/EE2.3.20.0150" target="_blank" >EE2.3.20.0150: Literatura a film bez hranic: dislokace a relokace v pluralitním prostoru</a><br>

Návaznosti

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

Rok uplatnění

2014

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název statě ve sborníku

A View form Elsewhere

ISBN

978-80-244-4396-6

ISSN

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e-ISSN

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Počet stran výsledku

10

Strana od-do

47-56

Název nakladatele

Univerzita Palackého

Místo vydání

Olomouc

Místo konání akce

Olomouc

Datum konání akce

20. 6. 2014

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

WRD - Celosvětová akce

Kód UT WoS článku

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