Writers on the Left, Episodes in American Literary Communism
| Author | : Daniel Aaron |
| Publisher | : New York : Harcourt, Brace & World |
| Total Pages | : 490 |
| Release | : 1961 |
| Genre | : American literature |
| ISBN | : |
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Writers on the Left
| Author | : Daniel Aaron |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 532 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780231080392 |
Writers on the Left chronicles the involvement of American writers with the progressive and radical movement from its bohemian origins in 1912 to its disillusionment and demise in the early 1940s. Aaron creates a perceptive and often poignant portrait of writers such as Max Eastman and Floyd Dell, who tried to wed the seemingly conflicting impulses behind the need for uninhibited artistic expression and to abolish the inequalities of class and race.
Writing from the Left
| Author | : Alan M. Wald |
| Publisher | : Verso |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781859849064 |
Discussion of fiction, poetry and cultural history is given central place in Wald's analysis. From this perspective he argues that the contemporary concerns of race, gender and culture have created a powerful new leftist critique. The book argues that that the left can draw strength by reconceptualizing its cultural legacy as a rich, diverse stream of political and cultural experiences flowing over six decades. It draws deeply on this tradition, highlighting its contemporary relevance. Alan Wald is the author of "James T. Farrell: The Revolutionary Socialist Years", "The Revolutionary Imagination", "The New York Intellectuals" and "The Responsibility of Intellectuals".
Robert Cantwell and the Literary Left
| Author | : T. V. Reed |
| Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 2014-06-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0295805048 |
Robert Cantwell and the Literary Left is the first full critical study of novelist and critic Robert Cantwell, a Northwest-born writer with a strong sense of social justice who found himself at the center of the radical literary and cultural politics of 1930s New York. Regarded by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway as one of the finest young fiction writers to emerge from this era, Cantwell is best known for his superb novel, The Land of Plenty, set in western Washington. His literary legacy, however, was largely lost during the Red Scare of the McCarthy era, when he retreated to conservatism. Through meticulous research, an engaging writing style, and a deep commitment to the history of American social movements, T. V. Reed uncovers the story of a writer who brought his Pacific Northwest brand of justice to bear on the project of “reworking” American literature to include ordinary working people in its narratives. In tracing the flourishing of the American literary Left as it unfolded in New York, Reed reveals a rich progressive culture that can inform our own time.
Socialist Cultures East and West
| Author | : Dubravka Juraga |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 197 |
| Release | : 2002-06-30 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0313014191 |
Decades of Western Cold War propaganda were designed to depict socialism as inimical to genuine aesthetic acheivement. Now, in the wake of the Cold War, it is becoming possible to reassess the past and present cultural productions of artists with socialist inclinations. The essays in this volume begin such a reassessment, finding that socialist cultural production in the 20th century, both as the official culture of the socialist East and as an oppositional culture in the capitalist West, has been rich and varied. The volume focuses on socialist culture in the industrialized world, primarily Eastern Europe and the West. An introductory essay overviews socialist cultural productions of the 20th century, while the chapters that follow address a wide range of topics. These include Soviet socialist realist fiction and film musicals, the socialist drama of Bertolt Brecht, and British and American leftist fiction. The volume demonstrates that propagandistic Cold War depictions of socialism as a threat to artistic expression were inaccurate and misleading.
Communism in America
| Author | : Albert Fried |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 460 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780231102353 |
And overview -- The 1920s: birth, insurgency, retrenchment -- Militancy and combat: third period communism, 1929-1934 -- The popular front against fascism, 1935-1945 -- Cold War and demise, 1945--
Left of the Color Line
| Author | : Bill V. Mullen |
| Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
| Total Pages | : 350 |
| Release | : 2012-01-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0807882399 |
This collection of fifteen new essays explores the impact of the organized Left and Leftist theory on American literature and culture from the 1920s to the present. In particular, the contributors explore the participation of writers and intellectuals on the Left in the development of African American, Chicano/Chicana, and Asian American literature and culture. By placing the Left at the center of their examination, the authors reposition the interpretive framework of American cultural studies. Tracing the development of the Left over the course of the last century, the essays connect the Old Left of the pre-World War II era to the New Left and Third World nationalist Left of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as to the multicultural Left that has emerged since the 1970s. Individual essays explore the Left in relation to the work of such key figures as Ralph Ellison, T. S. Eliot, Chester Himes, Harry Belafonte, Americo Paredes, and Alice Childress. The collection also reconsiders the role of the Left in such critical cultural and historical moments as the Harlem Renaissance, the Cold War, and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. The contributors are Anthony Dawahare, Barbara Foley, Marcial Gonzalez, Fred Ho, William J. Maxwell, Bill V. Mullen, Cary Nelson, B. V. Olguin, Rachel Rubin, Eric Schocket, James Smethurst, Michelle Stephens, Alan Wald, and Mary Helen Washington.
New Studies in the Politics
| Author | : Michael E. Brown |
| Publisher | : NYU Press |
| Total Pages | : 331 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0853458529 |
This pathbreaking collection of essays recasts the prevailing conceptions of the historical roots and role of the U.S. Communist Party and its social setting. The contributors focus on the movement that formed around the party and the popular culture it expressed, particularly in the period from 1930 to 1960. They look at the impact of the party and its followers in the areas of education, literature, and the arts, in the African-American community, and on the women's and labor movements. In their preface, the editors place the book in the context of the broader critical examination of the history of the left in the United States. By analyzing the historical reasons for the party's appeal and its relationship to those outside its ranks, the volume contributes to a fuller understanding of the broader societal context within which all oppositional movements are formed. Contributors (in order of appearance in book): Michael E. Brown, Mark Naison, John Gerassi, Stephen Leberstein, Ellen Schrecker, Rosalyn Baxandall, Roger Keeran, Gerald Horne, Annette T. Rubinstein, Marvin E. Gettleman, Alan Wald, and Gil Green (interviewed by Anders Stephanson).
Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context [4 volumes]
| Author | : Linda De Roche |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 2067 |
| Release | : 2021-06-04 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : |
This four-volume reference work surveys American literature from the early 20th century to the present day, featuring a diverse range of American works and authors and an expansive selection of primary source materials. Bringing useful and engaging material into the classroom, this four-volume set covers more than a century of American literary history—from 1900 to the present. Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context profiles authors and their works and provides overviews of literary movements and genres through which readers will understand the historical, cultural, and political contexts that have shaped American writing. Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context provides wide coverage of authors, works, genres, and movements that are emblematic of the diversity of modern America. Not only are major literary movements represented, such as the Beats, but this work also highlights the emergence and development of modern Native American literature, African American literature, and other representative groups that showcase the diversity of American letters. A rich selection of primary documents and background material provides indispensable information for student research.
Antifascism in American Art
| Author | : Cécile Whiting |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 1989-01-01 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780300042597 |
Whiting examines the various manifestations of antifacist art, showing how each negotiated the competing demands of artistic conventions, aesthetic and political theories, and historical developments.
