On the ruins of modernity
Subtitle: new Chicago renaissance from Wright to Kent
By: R. Baxter Miller
Publisher: Common Ground Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Champaign, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9781863359696; 9781863359702
Subjects: American literature; History and criticism; African Americans; African American authors; Intellectual life
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: "In the skyscraper's shadow": the historical and political contexts; title: "Since the New Eden of the thirties: Richard Wright"; title: "On the ruins of leftist modernity:  Gwendolyn Brooks"; title: "Recovered energy on the left front": Lorraine Hansberry"; title: "Of breathless space on the left": Ronald L. Fair.