New Negro, old left : African-American writing and Communism between the wars
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New Negro, old left : African-American writing and Communism between the wars
Columbia University Press, c1999
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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In a broad-ranging, revisionary account of the relationship between African-American literary culture and Communism in the 1920s and 19302, William J. Maxwell uncovers both black literature's debt to Communism and Communism's debt to black literature, reciprocal obligations first incurred during the Harlem Renaissance. Juxtaposing well-known and newly rediscovered works by Claude McKay, Andy Razaf, Mike Gold, Langston Hughes, Louise Thompson, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and Nelson Algren, the author maintains that the "old", Soviet-allied left promoted a spectrum of exchanges between black and white authors, genres, theories, and cultural institutions. New channels opened between radical Harlem and Bolshevik Moscow, between the New Negro renaissance and proletarian literature, Claude McKay's 1922-23 pilgrimage to the Soviet Union, for example, usually recalled as a lighthearted adventure in radical tourism, actually jumpstarted the Comintern's controversial nation-centred program for Afro America. Communism's rare sustenance for African-American initiative - not a seduction of depression-scarred innocents - brought scores of literary "New Negroes" to the Old Left.
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