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Exiles from a Future Time
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ISBN: 1469608693 1469608677 9781469608679 Year: 2012 Publisher: Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press

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With this book, Alan Wald launches a bold and passionate account of the U.S. Literary Left from the 1920s through the 1960s. Exiles from a Future Time, the first volume of a trilogy, focuses on the forging of a Communist-led literary tradition in the 1930s. Exploring writers' intimate lives and heartfelt political commitments, Wald draws on original research in scores of archives and personal collections of papers; correspondence and interviews with hundreds of writers and their friends and families; and a treasure trove of unpublished memoirs, fiction, and poetry. In fashioning


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American night
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ISBN: 1469601508 0807837342 9780807837344 9781469601502 9780807835869 0807835862 9781469618814 1469618818 Year: 2012 Publisher: Chapel Hill

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American Night, the final volume of an unprecedented trilogy, brings Alan Wald's multigenerational history of Communist writers to a poignant climax. Using new research to explore the intimate lives of novelists, poets, and critics during the Cold War, Wald reveals a radical community longing for the rebirth of the social vision of the 1930s and struggling with a loss of moral certainty as the Communist worldview was being called into question. The resulting literature, Wald shows, is a haunting record of fracture and struggle linked by common structures of feeling, ones more suggestive


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Women poets on the left : Lola Ridge, Genevieve Taggard, Margaret Walker
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ISBN: 0813028868 9780813028866 Year: 2001 Publisher: Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida,


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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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Raising Your Kids Right
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ISBN: 1283383187 9786613383181 0813549957 9780813549958 9780813547985 0813547989 9781283383189 661338318X Year: 2010 Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ Rutgers University Press

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Highlighting the works of William Bennett, Lynne Cheney, Bill O'Reilly, and others on the American political right, Michelle Ann Abate brings together such diverse fields as cultural studies, literary criticism, political science, childhood studies, brand marketing, and the cult of celebrity. Raising Your Kids Right dispels lingering societal attitudes that narratives for young readers are unworthy of serious political study by examining a variety of texts that offer information, ideology, and even instructions on how to raise kids right, not just figuratively but politically.

Twentieth-Century Americanism
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ISBN: 0415867215 0203959272 1135491240 9781135491246 9780203959275 9781135491314 9781135491383 9780415975384 9780415867214 0415975387 1306110726 1135491313 Year: 2013 Publisher: Hoboken Taylor and Francis

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First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


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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.

History, memory, and the literary left
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ISBN: 1587295083 9781587295089 1587297337 9781587297335 Year: 2006 Publisher: Iowa City University of Iowa Press

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In this nuanced revisionist history of modern American poetry, John Lowney investigates the Depression era's impact on late modernist American poetry from the socioeconomic crisis of the 1930's through the emergence of the new social movements of the 1960's. Informed by an ongoing scholarly reconsideration of 1930's American culture and concentrating on Left writers whose historical consciousness was profoundly shaped by the Depression, World War II, and the Cold War, Lowney articulates the Left's challenges to national collective memory and redefines the importance of late modernism in American


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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


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Bildungsbürgertum und völkische Ideologie : Konstitution und gesellschaftliche Tiefenwirkung eines Netzwerks völkischer Autoren (1919-1959)
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ISBN: 3110415534 3110415690 3110414759 3110415542 Year: 2016 Publisher: De Gruyter

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Die gemäßigt agierenden völkischen Ideologen Hans Grimm, Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer und Wilhelm Stapel beeinflussten die bildungsbürgerlichen Eliten ihrer Zeit in einer Weise, die weniger distinguiert auftretenden völkischen Agitatoren verschlossen blieb. Thomas Vordermayer zeichnet die Karrieren der drei Erfolgsautoren zwischen 1919 und 1959 nach. Er zeigt, wie sie unter den politisch-ideologischen "Multiplikatoren" der deutschen Gesellschaft - vor allem den Professoren, Journalisten und Redakteuren - Deutungsmacht erlangten und wie sie sich bemühten, sich gegenseitig privat und öffentlich zu stärken und zu unterstützen. Durch die Auswertung bislang kaum genutzter, vielfach völlig unbekannter Nachlassmaterialien und unter Rückgriff auf netzwerkanalytische Instrumentarien eröffnen sich dem Leser ganz neue Perspektiven auf die ideologische Verführbarkeit des Weimarer Bildungsbürgertums sowie auf das Denken und Handeln völkischer Schriftsteller und Publizisten. Wie sie sich untereinander abstimmten und bestätigten, wie sie sich im "Dritten Reich" positionierten und wie sie ihren jähen Bedeutungsverlust nach 1945 mental verarbeiteten, ist noch nie so nuanciert und tiefgründig beschrieben worden, wie in dieser preisgekrönten Studie.

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