Research Catalog

Title

Black writers and the left / edited by Kristen Moriah.

Publication

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Moriah, Kristen.
• Moriah, Kristin.

Description

vi, 229 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Subject

• African American authors > History and criticism
• Politics and literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Left Behind: The Reinvention of Dorothy West in The Living is Easy / Carmen Phelps -- "The Rotten, Lousy, Stinking, Double Crossing Communists!": The Communist Party and Chester Himes' Lonely Crusade / Cathy Bergin -- The Modernist Fiction of Ellison and Morrison: Between Communism and Black Art / Philip Goldstein -- Writing from the Left Bank: Reading Richard Wright's Native Son and The Outsider against the Backdrop of Communism and French Existentialism / Richard J. Gray II -- "The Two Races, It Seems, 'Understand Each Other'": George Schuyler's Southern Adventure / Richard Hancuff -- "This Really is a Delightful Place to Work": Yaddo, Langston Hughes, and a Revaluation of the Black Radical Left / Ben Alexander -- Novel Protests: The New Left and Black Fiction in the1960s / Donal Harris -- Aunt Sue's Mistake: False Consciousness in Richard Wright's "Bright and Morning Star" Gregory Meyerson -- Lorraine Hansberry: Writing between Rocks and Hard Places / Menhouka Case -- The Blues and the Left / Chauncey A. Ridley -- American Eyes: Economies of Vengeance in Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition / Kyle A. Wiggins -- The Radical and Bourgeois Leftism of Harold Cruse / Tyrone Williams -- Industrial War: Attaway, Himes, and African Americans in Industry during the World Wars / Washella T. Simmons.

ISBN

• 1443841250
• 9781443841252

OCLC

848162380

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library