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	Kellogg, Gregg; Bendiken, Arto; Lavender, Ben. - : Zenodo, 2022
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2	Worldly experiments: cosmopolitanism as style in twentieth-century African American literature
	Coyne, Justin Christopher; Tucker, Jeffrey A. (1966 - ). - : University of Rochester, 2015
	Abstract: Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Department of English, 2015. ; At once obscene and incisive, Diogenes' provocations of Alexander's Athenian court established cosmopolitanism in the 3rd Century BCE as an intellectual tradition premised on social and aesthetic risk. My project uncovers this often overlooked aspect of cosmopolitanism in a 20th Century African American literary tradition in which radical forms of geopolitical speculation required radical forms of stylistic experimentation. I argue that for black writers like W. E. B. Du Bois, Claude McKay, Richard Wright, Ishmael Reed, and Samuel Delany, an experimental literary aesthetic was not merely incidental to their geopolitics, but that it was responsible for bringing those politics into being. I claim that the ways in which these writers resisted discourses of racial authenticity, critiqued Western imperialism, and imagined transnational forms of non-white solidarity was inseparable from their similarly transgressive experiments in literary form--experiments that range from anachronistic excursions into outmoded genres to postmodern forms of pastiche and typographical manipulation. These aesthetic and political experiments, however, were not always successful, and my project's attention to both the virtues and the hazards of cosmopolitan experimentation suggests a way to intervene in contemporary conversations about the critical potential of cosmopolitanism as a whole. Rather than treat the term as unitary concept--that is, as either entirely progressive or entirely reactionary--I argue that cosmopolitanism needs to be understood as discourse constituted by an internal dialectic between symptoms of imperialism and their critique. This definition allows us to understand how multiple versions of cosmopolitanism might exist in any one historical moment, and how some versions of cosmopolitanism might be both progressive and reactionary at the same time.
	Keyword: African American literature; American literature; Cosmopolitanism; Transnational American studies
	URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1802/29596
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