Literature and politics today : the political nature of modern fiction, poetry, and drama

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Literature and politics today : the political nature of modern fiction, poetry, and drama

edited by M. Keith Booker

Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, c2015

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Focusing on the intersection of literature and politics since the beginning of the 20th century, this book examines authors, historical figures, major literary and political works, national literatures, and literary movements to reveal the intrinsic links between literature and history. Literary works have often engaged political issues, and many political writings give close attention to literary concerns. This encyclopedia explores the complex relationship between literature and politics through detailed entries written by expert contributors on authors, historical figures, major literary and political works, national literatures, and literary movements, covering specific themes, concepts, and genres related to literature and politics from the 20th century to the present. The work covers cover authors that include Margaret Atwood, James Baldwin, Philip K. Dick, W.E.B. Du Bois, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Jack London, Toni Morrison, George Orwell, John Steinbeck, and Virginia Woolf, just to mention a few. International in scope, Literature and Politics Today: The Political Nature of Modern Fiction, Poetry, and Drama covers writing ranging from the beginning of the 20th century to the present, with special emphasis on works written in English. The content of the some 150 alphabetically arranged entries is ideal for high school students working on assignments involving literature to explore such current yet historically ongoing social issues as censorship and propaganda. This book is appropriate for public libraries where it will serve to support student research and to help general readers learn more about enduring political concerns through literary works. Academic libraries will find this reference a valuable guide for undergraduates studying literature, history, political science, law, and other disciplines.

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Preface A-Z Entries Abrahams, Peter Achebe, Chinua African American Literature African Literature (Anglophone) African Literature (Francophone) Akhmatova, Anna American Literature Anand, Mulk Raj Anzaldua, Gloria E. Aragon, Louis Asian American Literature Atwood, Margaret Auden, W. H. Australian Literature Bacigalupi, Paolo Baldwin, James Baraka, Amiri Beat Movement Black Arts Movement Bond, Edward Brazilian Literature Brecht, Bertolt British Immigrant Literature British Literature Bulgakov, Mikhail Bulosan, Carlos Canadian Literature (Anglophone) Canadian Literature (Francophone) C?apek, Karel Cardenal, Ernesto Caribbean Literature (Anglophone) Caribbean Literature (Francophone) Carpentier, Alejo Cesaire, Aime Chinese Literature Cold War Collins, Suzanne Cuban Literature Dario, Ruben Day Lewis, C. De Boissiere, Ralph Delany, Samuel R. Dick, Philip K. Doctorow, Cory Doctorow, E. L. Dos Passos, John Dr. Seuss Dreiser, Theodore Du Bois, W. E. B. Dystopian Literature Eastern and Central European Literature Eliot, T. S. Fast, Howard Faulkner, William Federal Writers' Project (FWP) Fowler, Karen Joy Fox, Ralph French Literature Garcia Lorca, Federico Garcia Marquez, Gabriel German Literature Gibbon, Lewis Grassic Ginsberg, Allen Gold, Mike Gordimer, Nadine Gorky, Maxim Guillen, Nicolas Harlem Renaissance Havel, Vaclav Heinlein, Robert Hellman, Lillian Hemingway, Ernest Hernandez, Amado V. Hernandez, Miguel Himes, Chester Holocaust Literature Hughes, Langston Huxley, Aldous Indigenismo International Literature Irish Literature Isherwood, Christopher Italian Literature James, C. L. R. Jelinek, Elfriede Jewish American Literature John Reed Clubs Jones, Lewis Joyce, James Kataev, Valentin Petrovich Kipling, Rudyard Kis, Danilo Koestler, Arthur Kollontai, Alexandra Krleza, Miroslav Kundera, Milan La Guma, Alex Lamming, George Latin American Literature Latina/o Literature Le Guin, Ursula K. Lessing, Doris LeSueur, Meridel London, Jack Lorde, Audre Lu Xun Lumpkin, Grace Magical Realism Mailer, Norman Malraux, Andre Mandel'shtam, Osip Mann, Thomas Mariategui, Jose Carlos Mayakovsky, Vladimir McKay, Claude Mieville, China Milosz, Czeslaw Mo Yan Modernism Momaday, N. Scott Morrison, Toni Muller, Heiner Muller, Herta Nabokov, Vladimir Naipaul, V. S. Native American Literature Neruda, Pablo New Masses Nexo, Martin Andersen Ngu~gi~ wa Thiong'o O'Casey, Sean Odets, Clifford Olsen, Tillie Orwell, George Ostrovsky, Nikolai Owen, Wilfred Platonov, Andrei Popular Front Postcolonial Literature Postmodernism Pound, Ezra Prison Literature Proletarian Fiction, American Pullman, Philip Revueltas, Jose Robinson, Kim Stanley Rolland, Romain Rushdie, Salman Russ, Joanna Russian Revolution Sandburg, Carl Sartre, Jean-Paul Sassoon, Siegfried Schuyler, George Science Fiction Sembene, Ousmane Senghor, Leopold Sedar Shaw, George Bernard Sholokhov, Mikhail Silko, Leslie Marmon Silone, Ignazio Sinclair, Upton Smedley, Agnes Socialist Realism (Soviet) Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr South African Literature Spanish Civil War Spanish Literature Steinbeck, John Testimonio Tolstoy, Alexei Traven, B. Tressell, Robert Tsvetaeva, Marina Utopian Fiction Vargas Llosa, Mario Vizenor, Gerald Voinovich, Vladimir Wells, H. G. West, Nathanael West, Rebecca Wiesel, Elie Williams, William Carlos Woolf, Virginia Wright, Richard Yeats, William Butler Yezierska, Anzia Zamyatin, Evgeny Selected Bibliography About the Editor and Contributors Index

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