Left of the Color Line: Race, Radicalism, and Twentieth-Century Literature of the United States [NOOK Book]

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This collection of fifteen new essays explores the impact of the organized Left and Leftist theory on American literature and culture from the 1920s to the present. In particular, the contributors explore the participation of writers and intellectuals on the Left in the development of African American, Chicano/Chicana, and Asian American literature and culture. By placing the Left at the center of their examination, the authors reposition the ...
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Left of the Color Line: Race, Radicalism, and Twentieth-Century Literature of the United States

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This collection of fifteen new essays explores the impact of the organized Left and Leftist theory on American literature and culture from the 1920s to the present. In particular, the contributors explore the participation of writers and intellectuals on the Left in the development of African American, Chicano/Chicana, and Asian American literature and culture. By placing the Left at the center of their examination, the authors reposition the interpretive framework of American cultural studies.

Tracing the development of the Left over the course of the last century, the essays connect the Old Left of the pre-World War II era to the New Left and Third World nationalist Left of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as to the multicultural Left that has emerged since the 1970s. Individual essays explore the Left in relation to the work of such key figures as Ralph Ellison, T. S. Eliot, Chester Himes, Harry Belafonte, Americo Paredes, and Alice Childress. The collection also reconsiders the role of the Left in such critical cultural and historical moments as the Harlem Renaissance, the Cold War, and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

The contributors are Anthony Dawahare, Barbara Foley, Marcial Gonzalez, Fred Ho, William J. Maxwell, Bill V. Mullen, Cary Nelson, B. V. Olguin, Rachel Rubin, Eric Schocket, James Smethurst, Michelle Stephens, Alan Wald, and Mary Helen Washington.

Contributors:
Anthony Dawahare, California State University, Northridge (Northridge, Calif.)
Barbara Foley, Rutgers University (Newark, N.J.)
Marcial Gonzalez, University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, Calif.)
Fred Ho, New York, N.Y.
William J. Maxwell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Urbana-Champaign, Ill.)
Bill V. Mullen, University of Texas at San Antonio (San Antonio, Tex.)
Cary Nelson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Urbana-Champaign, Ill.)
B. V. Olguin, University of Texas at San Antonio (San Antonio, Tex.)
Rachel Rubin, University of Massachusetts-Boston (Boston, Mass.)
Eric Schocket, Hampshire College (Amherst, Mass.)
James Smethurst, University of Massachusetts-Amherst (Amherst, Mass.)
Michelle Stephens, Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, Mass.)
Alan Wald, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
Mary Helen Washington, University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
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This collection exerts real revisionary force on our understanding of twentieth-century American literature and culture by putting the Left at the center, helping us to see old texts anew and to find in them strategies useful for contemporary political struggles. Just as importantly, it embodies in miniature the contentious but coherent chorus of scholarly interest in the rich literature of the American Left.(Michael Thurston, Smith College author of Making Something Happen: American Political Poetry between the World Wars)
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Table of Contents

Abbreviations
Introduction
Modernism and the Aesthetics of Management, or T.S. Eliot's Labor Literature 13
F.B. Eyes: The Bureau Reads Claude McKay 39
The Specter of Radicalism in Alain Locke's The New Negro 67
W.E.B. DuBois, Dark Princess, and the Afro-Asian International 87
Barrios of the World Unite!: Regionalism, Transnationalism, and Internationalism in Tejano War Poetry from the Mexican Revolution to World War II 107
Narrating Nationalisms: Black Marxism and Jewish Communists through the Eyes of Harold Cruse 141
From Communism to Brotherhood: The Drafts of Invisible Man 163
Alice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, and Claudia Jones: Black Women Write the Popular Front 183
Voice of the Cracker: Don West Reinvents the Appalachian 205
The First Negro Matinee Idol: Harry Belafonte and American Culture in the 1950s 223
Bamboo That Snaps Back!: Resistance and Revolution in Asian Pacific American Working Class and Left-Wing Expressive Culture 239
Poetry and Sympathy: New York, the Left, and the Rise of Black Arts 259
A Marxist Critique of Borderlands Postmodernism: Adorno's Negative Dialectics and Chicano Cultural Criticism 279
The Letters the Presidents Did Not Release: Radical Scholarship and the Legacy of the American Volunteers in Spain 299
Contributors 315
Index 319
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