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Left politics and the literary profession
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ISBN: 0231065663 Year: 1990 Publisher: New York Columbia University Press


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British writers and MI5 surveillance, 1930-1960
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ISBN: 9781107030824 1107237602 1139344358 1139842951 1139846159 1139845314 1139840584 1283812568 1139841769 9781139344357 9781107546486 9781139840583 9781283812566 9781139845311 110703082X 1107546486 1139854399 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York Cambridge University Press

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"Britain's domestic intelligence agencies maintained secret records on many left-wing writers after the First World War. Drawing on recently declassified material from 1930 to 1960, this revealing study examines how leading figures in Britain's literary scene fell under MI5 and Special Branch surveillance, and the surprising extent to which writers became willing participants in the world of covert intelligence and propaganda. Chapters devoted to W. H. Auden and his associates, theatre pioneers Ewan MacColl and Joan Littlewood, George Orwell, and others describe methods used by MI5 to gather information through and about the cultural world. The book also investigates how these covert agencies assessed the political influence of such writers, providing scholars and students of twentieth-century British literature an unprecedented account of clandestine operations in popular culture"--


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The other blacklist : the African American literary and cultural left of the 1950s
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ISBN: 0231526474 9780231526470 9780231152709 0231152701 9780231152716 023115271X Year: 2014 Publisher: New York Columbia University Press

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Mary Helen Washington recovers the vital role of 1950's leftist politics in the works and lives of modern African American writers and artists. While most histories of McCarthyism focus on the devastation of the blacklist and the intersection of leftist politics and American culture, few include the activities of radical writers and artists from the Black Popular Front. Washington's work incorporates these black intellectuals back into our understanding of mid-twentieth-century African American literature and art and expands our understanding of the creative ferment energizing all of America during this period. Mary Helen Washington reads four representative writers-Lloyd Brown, Frank London Brown, Alice Childress, and Gwendolyn Brooks-and surveys the work of the visual artist Charles White. She traces resonances of leftist ideas and activism in their artistic achievements and follows their balanced critique of the mainstream liberal and conservative political and literary spheres. Her study recounts the targeting of African American as well as white writers during the McCarthy era, reconstructs the events of the 1959 Black Writers' Conference in New York, and argues for the ongoing influence of the Black Popular Front decades after it folded. Defining the contours of a distinctly black modernism and its far-ranging radicalization of American politics and culture, Washington fundamentally reorients scholarship on African American and Cold War literature and life.


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Beleaguered poets and leftist critics : Stevens, Cummings, Frost, and Williams in the 1930s
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ISBN: 9780817317133 9780817384456 0817384456 0817317139 Year: 2010 Publisher: Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press

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Different as they were as poets, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Robert Frost, and Williams Carlos Williams grappled with the highly charged literary politics of the 1930's in comparable ways. As other writers moved sharply to the Left, and as leftist critics promulgated a proletarian aesthetics, these modernist poets keenly felt the pressure of the times and politicized literary scene. All four poets saw their reputations critically challenged in these years and felt compelled to respond to the new politics, literary and national, in distinct ways, ranging from rejection to in

Revolutionary memory : recovering the poetry of the American left
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ISBN: 0415930049 Year: 2001 Publisher: New York London Routledge

The novel and the American Left : critical essays on depression-era fiction
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ISBN: 0877458804 1587294753 9781587294754 9780877458807 Year: 2004 Publisher: Iowa University Press

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The first collection of critical essays to focus specifically on the fiction produced by American novelists of the Depression era, The Novel and the American Left contributes substantially to the newly emerging emphasis on twentieth-century American literary radicalism. Recent studies have recovered this body of work and redefined in historical and theoretical terms its vibrant contribution to American letters. Casey consolidates and expands this field of study by providing a more specific consideration of individual novels and novelists, many of which are reaching new contemporary audiences t

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