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Taking her cue from W. E. B. Du Bois, Juliana Spahr explores how state interests have shaped U.S. literature. What is the relationship between literature and politics? Can writing be revolutionary? Can art be autonomous or is escape from nations and nationalisms impossible? As her sobering study affirms, aesthetic resistance is easily domesticated.

American literature --- Politics and literature --- Nationalism and literature --- Political aspects. --- 1950s America. --- American Committee for Cultural Freedom. --- Congress for Cultural Freedom. --- Multicultural literature. --- Poetry Foundation. --- U.S. Department of State.