Popular fronts
Subtitle: Chicago and African-American cultural politics, 1935-46
By: Bill V. Mullen.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: American literature -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History and criticism.; American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Intellectual life.; African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions.; Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Illinois -- Chicago.; African Americans in literature.; Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; Chicago (Ill.) -- In literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-235) and index.
Table of contents: title: Chicago and the politics of reputation: Richard Wright's long black shadow; title: Turning white space into Black space: the Chicago Defender and the creation of the cultural front; title: Artists in uniform: the South Side Community Art Center and the defense of culture; title: Worker-writers in Bronzeville: Negro story and the African-American "Little" magazine; title: Genre politics/cultural politics: the short story and the new Black fiction market; title: Engendering the cultural front: Gwendolyn Brooks, Black women, and class struggle in poetry; title: American daughters, fifth columns, and lonely crusades: purge, emigration, and exile in Chicago; title: Postscript: Bronzeville today.