Trinity of passion : the literary left and the antifascist crusade / Alan M. Wald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wald, Alan M., 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

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

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

Anti-fascist movements--United States--History.

Anti-fascist movements.

Authors, American--20th century--Political and social views.

Authors, American.

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

Communism and literature.

Radicalism--United States--History--20th century.

Radicalism.

Right and left (Political science) in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The second of three volumes by Alan Wald that track the political and personal lives of several generations of U.S. left-wing writers, Trinity of Passion carries forward the chronicle launched in Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left. In this volume Wald delves into literary, emotional, and ideological trajectories of radical cultural workers in the era when the International Brigades fought in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and the United States battled in World War II (1941-45). Probing in rich and haunting detail the controversial i

Contents:

Introduction: the strange career of Len Zinberg

Tough Jews in the Spanish Civil War

The agony of the African American left

The peculiarities of the Germans

A rage in Harlem

Disappearing acts

The conversion of the Jews

Arthur Miller's missing chapter

Conclusion: the fates of antifascism.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-302) and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908799-1-2

979-88-9313-212-0

1-4696-0328-4

0-8078-8236-4

OCLC:

778455354