Lineages of the Literary Left

Lineages of the Literary Left
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Download or read book Lineages of the Literary Left written by Howard Brick and published by Michigan Publishing Services. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects recent scholarship on intellectual, literary, and cultural movements and figures associated with left-wing politics beginning in the early twentieth century and continuing into our own time, largely in the United States but elsewhere in the world as well. These essays honor the contribution of Alan M. Wald's pathbreaking research, which for almost half a century has demonstrated that attention to the complex lived experiences of writers on the Left provides a new context for viewing major achievements as well as instructive minor ones in US fiction, poetry, drama, and criticism. His many books and articles, which are listed in the accompanying bibliography, have illuminated the creative lives of figures such as James T. Farrell, Willard Motley, Muriel Rukeyser, Philip Rahv, Richard Wright, Ann Petry, Kenneth Fearing, and Arthur Miller. Wald has delved into a consideration of Sidney Hook and pragmatism, developed a theory of Popular Front culture, and dissected the complexities of the anti-Stalinist Left. His investigations have opened the archives of Irving Howe, Sol Funaroff, Alfred Hayes, Paule Marshall, Sherry Mangan, Samuel Sillen, Rebecca Pitts, and other unduly neglected writers such as Jo Sinclair, Carlos Bulosan, John O. Killens, and Joy Davidman, among the many more across the Left who people Wald's magisterial studies in modern American culture. Collectively, the thinkers and actors intimately linked with social struggle who are analyzed in these diverse essays can be understood to form intertwined lineages of the Literary Left. Moreover, the critics and historians comprising this tribute attest to the varied lineages threading together myriad scholarly traditions as well. Throughout we stress the concluding "s," indicating the plural and multiple tendencies, fields, and methods expanding the Literary Left


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