The Resource American night : the literary left in the era of the Cold War, Alan M. Wald
American night : the literary left in the era of the Cold War, Alan M. Wald
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- Summary
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- American Night, the final volume of an unprecedented trilogy, brings Alan Wald's multigenerational history of Communist writers to a poignant climax. Using new research to explore the intimate lives of novelists, poets, and critics during the Cold War, Wald reveals a radical community longing for the rebirth of the social vision of the 1930s and struggling with a loss of moral certainty as the Communist worldview was being called into question. The resulting literature, Wald shows, is a haunting record of fracture and struggle linked by common structures of feeling, ones more suggestive of the "negative dialectics" of Theodor Adorno than the traditional social realism of the Left
- Establishing new points of contact among Kenneth Fearing, Ann Petry, Alexander Saxton, Richard Wright, Jo Sinclair, Thomas McGrath, and Carlos Bulosan, Wald argues that these writers were in dialogue with psychoanalysis, existentialism, and postwar modernism, often generating moods of piercing emotional acuity and cosmic dissent. He also recounts the contributions of lesser known cultural workers, with a unique accent on gays and lesbians, secular Jews, and people of color. The vexing ambiguities of an era Wald labels "late antifascism" serve to frame an impressive collective biography
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xviii, 412 pages
- Contents
-
- The Virtue of intentions
- Chapter 2.
- Scenes from a Class Struggle
- Somewhere beyond Proletarianism
- The Intellectual under Fire
- The Making of Zhdanovists
- Grand Illusions
- Humboldt's Gift
- Chapter 3.
- The Cult of Reason
- Preface
- Coming Home
- After the Popular Front
- The Sublime Saxton
- The Ruins of Memory
- Gender and the Crisis of Form
- Chapter 4.
- The "Homintem" Reconsidered
- Butterfly Friends
- The Closeted Past
- The Double Life of Harry Dana
- Introduction Late Antifascism
- Tough Guys
- Mama's Boys
- Chapter 5.
- Lonely Crusaders, Part I
- The Great Outsider
- "I Tried to Be a Communist"
- Personal History
- American Pages
- The Radical Stranger
- Chapter 6.
- Chapter 1.
- Lonely Crusaders, Part II
- Melville in Old Saybrook
- Contingencies of Gender
- The Fog
- The Etiology of Mourning
- Red, Black, and Gay
- Exile and Its Discontents
- Chapter 7.
- Jews without Judaism
- Deconversion and Disavowal
- Postwar
- Friends of the Unconscious
- Analytical Realism
- The Book of Memory
- A Novel of Emotions
- Chapter 8.
- Off Modernity's Grid
- The Strange Career of People's Poetry
- Imaginary Friends
- Memories of the Future
- Socialist Surrealism
- The Culture Wars of Kenneth Fearing
- Auden in Brooklyn
- Conclusion The Sense of an Ending
- The Afterlife of Literary Communism
- The Indeterminacy of Art
- The Presence of an Absence
- A Note on Methodology
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- The Mask of Irony
- Rage against the Machine
- Study in Fundamentals
- Isbn
- 9780807835869
- Label
- American night : the literary left in the era of the Cold War
- Title
- American night
- Title remainder
- the literary left in the era of the Cold War
- Statement of responsibility
- Alan M. Wald
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- American Night, the final volume of an unprecedented trilogy, brings Alan Wald's multigenerational history of Communist writers to a poignant climax. Using new research to explore the intimate lives of novelists, poets, and critics during the Cold War, Wald reveals a radical community longing for the rebirth of the social vision of the 1930s and struggling with a loss of moral certainty as the Communist worldview was being called into question. The resulting literature, Wald shows, is a haunting record of fracture and struggle linked by common structures of feeling, ones more suggestive of the "negative dialectics" of Theodor Adorno than the traditional social realism of the Left
- Establishing new points of contact among Kenneth Fearing, Ann Petry, Alexander Saxton, Richard Wright, Jo Sinclair, Thomas McGrath, and Carlos Bulosan, Wald argues that these writers were in dialogue with psychoanalysis, existentialism, and postwar modernism, often generating moods of piercing emotional acuity and cosmic dissent. He also recounts the contributions of lesser known cultural workers, with a unique accent on gays and lesbians, secular Jews, and people of color. The vexing ambiguities of an era Wald labels "late antifascism" serve to frame an impressive collective biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1946-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Wald, Alan M.
- Dewey number
- 810.9/358
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS228.C6
- LC item number
- W34 2012
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- American literature
- Communism and literature
- Socialism and literature
- Right and left (Political science) in literature
- American literature
- Communism and literature
- Socialism and literature
- Right and left (Political science) in literature
- Label
- American night : the literary left in the era of the Cold War, Alan M. Wald
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- The Virtue of intentions
- Chapter 2.
- Scenes from a Class Struggle
- Somewhere beyond Proletarianism
- The Intellectual under Fire
- The Making of Zhdanovists
- Grand Illusions
- Humboldt's Gift
- Chapter 3.
- The Cult of Reason
- Preface
- Coming Home
- After the Popular Front
- The Sublime Saxton
- The Ruins of Memory
- Gender and the Crisis of Form
- Chapter 4.
- The "Homintem" Reconsidered
- Butterfly Friends
- The Closeted Past
- The Double Life of Harry Dana
- Introduction Late Antifascism
- Tough Guys
- Mama's Boys
- Chapter 5.
- Lonely Crusaders, Part I
- The Great Outsider
- "I Tried to Be a Communist"
- Personal History
- American Pages
- The Radical Stranger
- Chapter 6.
- Chapter 1.
- Lonely Crusaders, Part II
- Melville in Old Saybrook
- Contingencies of Gender
- The Fog
- The Etiology of Mourning
- Red, Black, and Gay
- Exile and Its Discontents
- Chapter 7.
- Jews without Judaism
- Deconversion and Disavowal
- Postwar
- Friends of the Unconscious
- Analytical Realism
- The Book of Memory
- A Novel of Emotions
- Chapter 8.
- Off Modernity's Grid
- The Strange Career of People's Poetry
- Imaginary Friends
- Memories of the Future
- Socialist Surrealism
- The Culture Wars of Kenneth Fearing
- Auden in Brooklyn
- Conclusion The Sense of an Ending
- The Afterlife of Literary Communism
- The Indeterminacy of Art
- The Presence of an Absence
- A Note on Methodology
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- The Mask of Irony
- Rage against the Machine
- Study in Fundamentals
- Control code
- 783862014
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xviii, 412 pages
- Isbn
- 9780807835869
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2012012540
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)783862014
- Label
- American night : the literary left in the era of the Cold War, Alan M. Wald
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- The Virtue of intentions
- Chapter 2.
- Scenes from a Class Struggle
- Somewhere beyond Proletarianism
- The Intellectual under Fire
- The Making of Zhdanovists
- Grand Illusions
- Humboldt's Gift
- Chapter 3.
- The Cult of Reason
- Preface
- Coming Home
- After the Popular Front
- The Sublime Saxton
- The Ruins of Memory
- Gender and the Crisis of Form
- Chapter 4.
- The "Homintem" Reconsidered
- Butterfly Friends
- The Closeted Past
- The Double Life of Harry Dana
- Introduction Late Antifascism
- Tough Guys
- Mama's Boys
- Chapter 5.
- Lonely Crusaders, Part I
- The Great Outsider
- "I Tried to Be a Communist"
- Personal History
- American Pages
- The Radical Stranger
- Chapter 6.
- Chapter 1.
- Lonely Crusaders, Part II
- Melville in Old Saybrook
- Contingencies of Gender
- The Fog
- The Etiology of Mourning
- Red, Black, and Gay
- Exile and Its Discontents
- Chapter 7.
- Jews without Judaism
- Deconversion and Disavowal
- Postwar
- Friends of the Unconscious
- Analytical Realism
- The Book of Memory
- A Novel of Emotions
- Chapter 8.
- Off Modernity's Grid
- The Strange Career of People's Poetry
- Imaginary Friends
- Memories of the Future
- Socialist Surrealism
- The Culture Wars of Kenneth Fearing
- Auden in Brooklyn
- Conclusion The Sense of an Ending
- The Afterlife of Literary Communism
- The Indeterminacy of Art
- The Presence of an Absence
- A Note on Methodology
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- The Mask of Irony
- Rage against the Machine
- Study in Fundamentals
- Control code
- 783862014
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xviii, 412 pages
- Isbn
- 9780807835869
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2012012540
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)783862014
Subject
- Communism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- History
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Socialism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Right and left (Political science) in literature
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