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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457940603321

Autore

Wald Alan M. <1946->

Titolo

Trinity of passion [[electronic resource] ] : the literary left and the antifascist crusade / / Alan M. Wald

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2007

ISBN

1-4696-0328-4

0-8078-8236-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (340 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/358

Soggetti

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

American literature - Jewish authors - History and criticism

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Anti-fascist movements - United States - History

Authors, American - 20th century - Political and social views

Communism and literature - United States - History - 20th century

Radicalism - United States - History - 20th century

Right and left (Political science) in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-302) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: the strange career of Len Zinberg -- Tough Jews in the Spanish Civil War -- The agony of the African American left -- The peculiarities of the Germans -- A rage in Harlem -- Disappearing acts -- The conversion of the Jews -- Arthur Miller's missing chapter -- Conclusion: the fates of antifascism.

Sommario/riassunto

The second of three volumes by Alan Wald that track the political and personal lives of several generations of U.S. left-wing writers, Trinity of Passion carries forward the chronicle launched in Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left. In this volume Wald delves into literary, emotional, and ideological trajectories of radical cultural workers in the era when the International Brigades fought in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and the United States battled in World War II (1941-45). Probing in rich and haunting detail the



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