Black writers and the left
By: edited by Kristin Moriah
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781443841252
Subjects: American literature; African American authors; History and criticism; Politics and literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Left Behind: The Reinvention of Dorothy West in The Living is Easy / Carmen Phelps; title: "The Rotten, Lousy, Stinking, Double Crossing Communists!": The Communist Party and Chester Himes' Lonely Crusade / Cathy Bergin; title: The Modernist Fiction of Ellison and Morrison: Between Communism  and Black Art / Philip Goldstein; title: Writing from the Left Bank: Reading Richard Wright's  Native Son  and  The Outsider  against the Backdrop of Communism and French  Existentialism / Richard J. Gray II; title: "The Two Races, It Seems, 'Understand Each Other'":  George Schuyler's Southern Adventure / Richard Hancuff; title: "This Really is a Delightful Place to Work": Yaddo, Langston Hughes, and a Revaluation of the Black Radical Left / Ben Alexander; title: Novel Protests: The New Left and Black Fiction in the1960s / Donal Harris; title: Aunt Sue's Mistake: False Consciousness in Richard Wright's "Bright and Morning Star"  Gregory Meyerson; title: Lorraine Hansberry: Writing between Rocks and Hard Places / Menhouka Case; title: The Blues and the Left / Chauncey A. Ridley; title: American Eyes: Economies of Vengeance in Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition / Kyle A. Wiggins; title: The Radical and Bourgeois Leftism of Harold Cruse / Tyrone Williams; title: Industrial War: Attaway, Himes, and African Americans in Industry during the World Wars / Washella T. Simmons.