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American night : the literary left in the era of the Cold War / Alan M. Wald.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wald, Alan M., 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Communism and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- Communism and literature.
- Socialism and literature.
- History.
- United States.
- Socialism and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- Right and left (Political science) in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 412 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Postwar 22
- The Culture Wars of Kenneth Fearing 22
- The Mask of Irony 27
- Rage against the Machine 33
- Study in Fundamentals 37
- The Virtue of intentions 41
- Chapter 2 Scenes from a Class Struggle 49
- Somewhere beyond Proletarianism 49
- The Intellectual under Fire 55
- The Making of Zhdanovists 60
- Grand Illusions 70
- Humboldt's Gift 75
- Chapter 3 The Cult of Reason 84
- Coming Home 84
- After the Popular Front 92
- The Sublime Saxton 98
- The Ruins of Memory 103
- Gender and the Crisis of Form 107
- Chapter 4 The "Homintem" Reconsidered 117
- Butterfly Friends 117
- The Closeted Past 127
- The Double Life of Harry Dana 134
- Tough Guys 139
- Mama's Boys 144
- Chapter 5 Lonely Crusaders, Part I 150
- The Great Outsider 150
- "I Tried to Be a Communist" 156
- Personal History 163
- American Pages 169
- The Radical Stranger 174
- Chapter 6 Lonely Crusaders, Part II 179
- Melville in Old Saybrook 179
- Contingencies of Gender 184
- The Fog 190
- The Etiology of Mourning 195
- Red, Black, and Gay 201
- Exile and Its Discontents 208
- Chapter 7 Jews without Judaism 216
- Deconversion and Disavowal 216
- Friends of the Unconscious 225
- Analytical Realism 230
- The Book of Memory 238
- A Novel of Emotions 243
- Chapter 8 Off Modernity's Grid 250
- The Strange Career of People's Poetry 250
- Imaginary Friends 256
- Memories of the Future 265
- Socialist Surrealism 271
- Auden in Brooklyn 281
- Conclusion The Sense of an Ending 292
- The Afterlife of Literary Communism 292
- The Indeterminacy of Art 296
- The Presence of an Absence 304.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780807835869
- 0807835862
- OCLC:
- 783862014
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