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Exiles from a Future Time The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left / Alan M. Wald.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wald, Alan M., 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Right and left (Political science) in literature.
- Socialism and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- Socialism and literature.
- Communism and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- Communism and literature.
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (435 p.)
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- With this book, Alan Wald launches a bold and passionate account of the U.S. Literary Left from the 1920s through the 1960s. Exiles from a Future Time, the first volume of a trilogy, focuses on the forging of a Communist-led literary tradition in the 1930s. Exploring writers' intimate lives and heartfelt political commitments, Wald draws on original research in scores of archives and personal collections of papers; correspondence and interviews with hundreds of writers and their friends and families; and a treasure trove of unpublished memoirs, fiction, and poetry. In fashioning
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1. American Jeremiad 9
- Recording Angel 9
- Shakespeare in Overalls 15
- Poems forWorkers 18
- "Write It Plain" 28
- Revolutionary Romanticsm 33
- Chapter 2. Inventing Mike Gold 39
- "A Kind of Cheeky Krazy Kat" 39
- "By Street Life and Thunder" 42
- Poverty Is a Trap 45
- Meyerhold in Harlem 5o
- The Van Gogh of a Darker Time 55
- The Gold Standard 61
- Chapter 3. The Great Promise 71
- Living in a "State of Emergency" 71
- "Waiting for Trachty" 76
- The Black Cultural Front 80
- African Americans and the John Reed Clubs 84
- Gender and Party Commitment 95
- Chapter 4. The New Masses and the Social Muse 103
- "Bloody Anarchists" 103
- Becoming a Weekly 108
- Portrait of a New Masses Literary Editor 112
- Poetry and the Popular Front 119
- The Last Refuge 127
- Chapter 5. Yogis and Commissars 163
- Love and Revolution 163
- A Pen Dripped in Vitriol 166
- The St. Augustine of Communism 171
- The Red Valentino 178
- A Divided Life 185
- The Dream with the Changing Name 190
- Chapter 6. Three Moderns in Search of an Answer 193
- The Modernist Temptation 193
- Bastard in the Ragged Suit 198
- Apollinaire of the Proletariat 204
- Byron of the Poolhalls 214
- Chapter 7. Sappho in Red 229
- Loyalties 229
- The Rational Ecologist 234
- Waltzing Mouse 238
- And God Came In 244
- The Apostate 247
- The Premature Socialist-Feminists 252
- Chapter 8. Black Marxists in White America 263
- Transcending Narrow Nationalisms 263
- New Challenges 267
- "New" and "Newer" Negroes 276
- Between Class and Nationality 279
- From Banjo to Melody 291
- Conclusion: The Antinomies of a Proletarian Avant-garde 299
- Flights and Moorings 299
- A Social Poet's Progress 306
- Poets and Criminals 316.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-391) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908752-5-9
- 1-4696-0869-3
- 1-4696-0867-7
- OCLC:
- 821190573
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