Left of the Color Line
Subtitle: Race, Radicalism, and Twentieth-Century Literature of the United States (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: September 26, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780807827994
Subjects: Ethnic studies; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies; History and criticism; American literature; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; English; USA; American - General; Ethnic Studies - General; Literature/Literary Criticism: American; African-American/African Studies; American Studies;; United States; Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject; 20th century; History; Politics and literature; Race in literature
First sentence: The relation of the organized Left to the political and cultural life of the United States remains a vexed and contentious issue both inside and outside academia.