| Left of the Color Line: Race, Radicalism, and Twentieth-Century Literature of the United States Contributor(s): Mullen, Bill V. (Editor), Smethurst, James (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0807854778 ISBN-13: 9780807854778 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $42.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2003 Annotation: This collection of fifteen new essays explores the impact of the organized Left and Leftist theory on American literature and culture from the 1920s to the present. In particular, the contributors explore the participation of writers and intellectuals on the Left in the development of African American, Chicano/Chicana, and Asian American literature and culture. By placing the Left at the center of their examination, the authors reposition the interpretive framework of American cultural studies. Tracing the development of the Left over the course of the last century, the essays connect the Old Left of the pre-World War II era to the New Left and Third World nationalist Left of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as to the multicultural Left that has emerged since the 1970s. Individual essays explore the Left in relation to the work of such key figures as Ralph Ellison, T. S. Eliot, Chester Himes, Harry Belafonte, Americo Paredes, and Alice Childress. The collection also reconsiders the role of the Left in such critical cultural and historical moments as the Harlem Renaissance, the Cold War, and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. The contributors are Anthony Dawahare, Barbara Foley, Marcial Gonzalez, Fred Ho, William J. Maxwell, Bill V. Mullen, Cary Nelson, B. V. Olgun, Rachel Rubin, Eric Schocket, James Smethurst, Michelle Stephens, Alan Wald, and Mary Helen Washington. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Dewey: 810.935 |
| LCCN: 2003005015 |
| Series: The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 5.98" W x 9.38" (1.11 lbs) 344 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection of fifteen new essays explores the impact of the organized Left and Leftist theory on American literature and culture from the 1920s to the present. In particular, the contributors explore the participation of writers and intellectuals on the Left in the development of African American, Chicano/Chicana, and Asian American literature and culture. By placing the Left at the center of their examination, the authors reposition the interpretive framework of American cultural studies. Tracing the development of the Left over the course of the last century, the essays connect the Old Left of the pre-World War II era to the New Left and Third World nationalist Left of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as to the multicultural Left that has emerged since the 1970s. Individual essays explore the Left in relation to the work of such key figures as Ralph Ellison, T. S. Eliot, Chester Himes, Harry Belafonte, Americo Paredes, and Alice Childress. The collection also reconsiders the role of the Left in such critical cultural and historical moments as the Harlem Renaissance, the Cold War, and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. The contributors are Anthony Dawahare, Barbara Foley, Marcial Gonzalez, Fred Ho, William J. Maxwell, Bill V. Mullen, Cary Nelson, B. V. Olguin, Rachel Rubin, Eric Schocket, James Smethurst, Michelle Stephens, Alan Wald, and Mary Helen Washington. Contributors: Anthony Dawahare, California State University, Northridge (Northridge, Calif.) Barbara Foley, Rutgers University (Newark, N.J.) Marcial Gonzalez, University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, Calif.) Fred Ho, New York, N.Y. William J. Maxwell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Urbana-Champaign, Ill.) Bill V. Mullen, University of Texas at San Antonio (San Antonio, Tex.) Cary Nelson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Urbana-Champaign, Ill.) B. V. Olguin, University of Texas at San Antonio (San Antonio, Tex.) Rachel Rubin, University of Massachusetts-Boston (Boston, Mass.) Eric Schocket, Hampshire College (Amherst, Mass.) James Smethurst, University of Massachusetts-Amherst (Amherst, Mass.) Michelle Stephens, Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, Mass.) Alan Wald, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.) Mary Helen Washington, University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) |
Contributor Bio(s): Smethurst, James: - James Smethurst is assistant professor in the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He is author of The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African-American Poetry, 1930-1946.Mullen, Bill V.: - Bill V. Mullen is professor of English and co-coordinator of American studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He is author of Popular Fronts: Chicago and African American Cultural Politics, 1935-1946. |