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Maxwell, William J. (College teacher)

Title New Negro, old Left : African-American writing and Communism between the wars / William J. Maxwell.

Published	New York : Columbia University Press, [1999]
	©1999

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Location	Call No.	Status
UniM Store	Q34154	AVAILABLE

Physical description	xi, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-238) and index.
Contents	Introduction: Black and Red All Over? -- 1. Kitchen Mechanics and Parlor Nationalists: Andy Razaf, Black Bolshevism, and Harlem's Renaissance -- 2. Home to Moscow: Claude McKay's: The Negroes in America and the Race of Marxist Theory -- 3. The Proletarian as New Negro; the New Negro as Proletarian: Mike Gold Meets Claude McKay -- 4. Scottsboro Delimited: White Bait, Red Triangles, and Interracialism Between Men -- 5. Black Belt/Black Folk: The End(s) of the Richard Wright-Zora Neale Hurston Debate -- 6. Native Sons Divorce: A Conclusion.
Summary	In a broad-ranging, revisionary account of the relationship between African-American literary culture and Communism in the 1920s and 1930s, Maxwell uncovers both black literatures debt to Communism and Communisms debt to black literature, reciprocal obligations first incurred during the Harlem Renaissance.
Subject	American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
	Communism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	Political fiction, American -- History and criticism.
	Right and left (Political science) in literature.
	African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
	African Americans -- Politics and government.
	African Americans in literature.
ISBN	0231114249 (alkaline paper)
	0231114257 (paperback: alkaline paper)

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