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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McCarthy, Jesse (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2024].
Series:	Thinking literature.
Subjects:	African American authors > 20th century. American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Cold War in literature.

Table of Contents:

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.