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- ISBN 9798895060186
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 04 Nov 2025
- Publisher: Michigan Publishing Services
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Forgotten Friendships: Yugoslavia and the Anticolonial Francophone World examines transnational friendships and alliances between intellectuals from Yugoslavia and the Francophone African and Caribbean world during the mid-twentieth century. The book argues that transnational political friendships helped shape major intellectual movements like Négritude, African socialism, and global socialist feminisms, which surged beyond national, regional, and even diasporic spaces. Blending archival research, literary analysis, and biography, the book fills a significant gap in our understanding of how intellectuals from the Global South and the socialist world collaborated on shared goals of decolonization, anti-racism, and socialist worldmaking.
Forgotten Friendships emphasizes the ways in which writers, intellectuals, and activists envisioned alternative futures rooted in collaboration across peripheries. Personal bonds of friendship were not mere footnotes to the anti-colonial struggle, but vital political tools for rethinking global solidarity.
Alexandra Perišić teaches at the Faculty of Media and Communications in Belgrade, Serbia, where she is also the vice-dean for academic affairs. She is the author of Precarious Crossings: Immigration, Neoliberalism, and the Atlantic (Ohio State University Press, 2019).
