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The power of political art : the 1930s literary left reconsidered /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shulman, Robert, 1930-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2000]
Subjects:
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Communism and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Politics and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Authors, American > 20th century > Political and social views.
Communism > United States > History > 20th century.
Right and left (Political science) in literature.
Power (Social sciences) in literature.
Radicalism in literature.
Nineteen thirties.
Table of Contents:
  • The cultural dialogue of the thirties left
  • Representative careers and reputations
  • The radical art of Meridel Le Sueur
  • The dialectical imagination of Josephine Herbst: the Trexler trilogy
  • Richard Wright's Native Son and the political unconscious
  • Muriel Rukeyser's The book of the dead: the modernist poem as radical documentary
  • The left poetry of Langston Hughes.