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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780453703321

Autore

Dawahare Anthony <1961->

Titolo

Nationalism, Marxism, and African American literature between the  wars [[electronic resource] ] : a new Pandora's box / / Anthony Dawahare

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2003

ISBN

1-282-96082-2

9786612960826

1-60473-041-2

1-4175-0696-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 p.)

Collana

Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies

Disciplina

810.9/896073

Soggetti

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

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

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

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

Black nationalism - United States - History - 20th century

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

African Americans - Intellectual life - 20th century

African Americans - Politics and government

African Americans in literature

Black nationalism in literature

Politics in literature

Race in literature

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. [141]-156) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Black nationalist discourse in the postwar period -- The dual nationalism of Alain Locke's The new Negro -- The dance of nationalism in the Harlem Renaissance -- Marxism and Black proletarian literary theory -- Langston Hughes's radical poetry and the "end of race" -- Richard Wright's critique of nationalist desire -- Beyond twentieth-century nationalisms in the study of African American culture.



Sommario/riassunto

During and after the Harlem Renaissance, two intellectual forces nationalism and Marxism clashed and changed the future of African American writing. Current literary thinking says that writers with nationalist leanings wrote the most relevant fiction, poetry, and prose of the day. Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature Between the Wars: A New Pandora's Box challenges that notion. It boldly proposes that such writers as A. Philip Randolph, Langston Hughes, and Richard Wright, who often saw the world in terms of class struggle, did more to advance the anti-racist politics of Africa