Nationalism, Marxism, and African American literature between the wars : a new Pandora's box / Anthony Dawahare.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dawahare, Anthony, 1961-

Series:

Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.

Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

Nationalism and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Nationalism and literature.

Communism and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Communism and literature.

Socialism and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Socialism and literature.

Black nationalism--United States--History--20th century.

Black nationalism.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Politics and government.

African Americans in literature.

Black nationalism in literature.

Politics in literature.

Race in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (182 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During and after the Harlem Renaissance, two intellectual forces nationalism and Marxism clashed and changed the future of African American writing. Current literary thinking says that writers with nationalist leanings wrote the most relevant fiction, poetry, and prose of the day. Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature Between the Wars: A New Pandora's Box challenges that notion. It boldly proposes that such writers as A. Philip Randolph, Langston Hughes, and Richard Wright, who often saw the world in terms of class struggle, did more to advance the anti-racist politics of Africa

Contents:

Black nationalist discourse in the postwar period

The dual nationalism of Alain Locke's The new Negro

The dance of nationalism in the Harlem Renaissance

Marxism and Black proletarian literary theory

Langston Hughes's radical poetry and the "end of race"

Richard Wright's critique of nationalist desire

Beyond twentieth-century nationalisms in the study of African American culture.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-156) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-96082-2

9786612960826

1-60473-041-2

1-4175-0696-2

OCLC:

614929486