Exiles from a future time
Subtitle: the forging of the mid-twentieth-century literary left
By: Alan M. Wald.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
Subjects: American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Communism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Socialism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Right and left (Political science) in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-391) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1. American Jeremiad 9; title: Recording Angel 9; title: Shakespeare in Overalls 15; title: Poems forWorkers 18; title: "Write It Plain" 28; title: Revolutionary Romanticsm 33; title: Chapter 2. Inventing Mike Gold 39; title: "A Kind of Cheeky Krazy Kat" 39; title: "By Street Life and Thunder" 42; title: Poverty Is a Trap 45; title: Meyerhold in Harlem 5o; title: The Van Gogh of a Darker Time 55; title: The Gold Standard 61; title: Chapter 3. The Great Promise 71; title: Living in a "State of Emergency" 71; title: "Waiting for Trachty" 76; title: The Black Cultural Front 80; title: African Americans and the John Reed Clubs 84; title: Gender and Party Commitment 95; title: Chapter 4. The New Masses and the Social Muse 103; title: "Bloody Anarchists" 103; title: Becoming a Weekly 108; title: Portrait of a New Masses Literary Editor 112; title: Poetry and the Popular Front 119; title: The Last Refuge 127; title: Chapter 5. Yogis and Commissars 163; title: Love and Revolution 163; title: A Pen Dripped in Vitriol 166; title: The St. Augustine of Communism 171; title: The Red Valentino 178; title: A Divided Life 185; title: The Dream with the Changing Name 190; title: Chapter 6. Three Moderns in Search of an Answer 193; title: The Modernist Temptation 193; title: Bastard in the Ragged Suit 198; title: Apollinaire of the Proletariat 204; title: Byron of the Poolhalls 214; title: Chapter 7. Sappho in Red 229; title: Loyalties 229; title: The Rational Ecologist 234; title: Waltzing Mouse 238; title: And God Came In 244; title: The Apostate 247; title: The Premature Socialist-Feminists 252; title: Chapter 8. Black Marxists in White America 263; title: Transcending Narrow Nationalisms 263; title: New Challenges 267; title: "New" and "Newer" Negroes 276; title: Between Class and Nationality 279; title: From Banjo to Melody 291; title: Conclusion: The Antinomies of a Proletarian Avant-garde 299; title: Flights and Moorings 299; title: A Social Poet's Progress 306; title: Poets and Criminals 316.