The blue period : Black writing in the early Cold War /

To be a Black writer in the early years of the Cold War was to face a stark predicament. On the one hand, revolutionary Communism promised egalitarianism and lit the sparks of anticolonial struggle, but was hostile to conceptions of personal freedom. On the other hand, the great force opposing the S...

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Main Author: McCarthy, Jesse (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2024].
Series:Thinking literature.
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505 0 |a Introduction: Black and Blue at Midcentury -- James Baldwin's Revelations -- Édouard Glissant's Relocations -- Vincent O. Carter's Exiles -- Gwendolyn Brooks's and Paule Marshall's Elusions -- Richard Wright's Negations -- Conclusion: Writing for a Future World. 
520 |a To be a Black writer in the early years of the Cold War was to face a stark predicament. On the one hand, revolutionary Communism promised egalitarianism and lit the sparks of anticolonial struggle, but was hostile to conceptions of personal freedom. On the other hand, the great force opposing the Soviets at midcentury was itself the very fountainhead of racial prejudice, represented in the United States by Jim Crow. Jesse McCarthy argues that Black writers of this time were equally alienated from the left and the right and channeled that alienation into remarkable experiments in literary form. Embracing racial affect and interiority, they forged an aesthetic resistance premised on fierce dissent from both U.S. racial liberalism and Soviet Communism. Ranging from the end of World War II to the rise of Black Power in the 1960s, from Richard Wright and James Baldwin to Gwendolyn Brooks and Paule Marshall and others, Jesse McCarthy shows how Black writers defined a distinctive moment in American literary culture that McCarthy calls "the Blue Period." 
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