Popular fronts : Chicago and African-American cultural politics, 1935-46 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mullen, Bill, 1959-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1999]
Subjects:	American literature > Illinois > Chicago > History and criticism. American literature > African American authors > History and criticism. American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. African Americans > Illinois > Chicago > Intellectual life. African Americans > Illinois > Chicago > Social conditions. Chicago (Ill.) > Intellectual life > 20th century. African Americans in literature.

Table of Contents:

Chicago and the politics of reputation: Richard Wright's long black shadow
Turning white space into Black space: the Chicago Defender and the creation of the cultural front
Artists in uniform: the South Side Community Art Center and the defense of culture
Worker-writers in Bronzeville: Negro story and the African-American "Little" magazine
Genre politics/cultural politics: the short story and the new Black fiction market
Engendering the cultural front: Gwendolyn Brooks, Black women, and class struggle in poetry
American daughters, fifth columns, and lonely crusades: purge, emigration, and exile in Chicago
Postscript: Bronzeville today.