Title The new red Negro : the literary left and African American poetry, 1930-1946 / James Edward Smethurst

Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 288 pages) Series Race and American culture Race and American culture. Contents Introduction: Of the coming of the new red negro -- African-American poetry, ideology, and the left during the 1930s and 1940s from the third period to the popular front and beyond -- "The strong men gittin' stronger": Sterling Brown and the respresentation and re-creation of the southern folk voice -- "Adventures of a social poet": Langston Highes in the 1930s -- "I am black and I have seen black hands": The narratorial consciousness and constructions of the folk in 1930s African-American poetry -- Hughes's Shakespeare in Harlem and the rise of popular neomodernism --Hysterical ties: Gwendolyn Brooks and the rise of a "high" neomodernism -- The popular front, World War II, and the rise of neomoderism in African-American poetry of the 1940s -- Conclusion: Sullen bakeries of total recall." Summary This text surveys African American poetry between the onset of the Depression and the early days of the Cold War. It considers the relationship between the thematic and formal choices of African American poets, and organized ideology from "proletarian" early 1930s to the "neo-modernist" late 1940s Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-275) and index Notes Print version record Subject American poetry -- African American authors -- History and criticism Communism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century Political poetry, American -- History and criticism Right and left (Political science) in literature. African Americans -- Politics and government. African Americans in literature. Race relations in literature. POETRY -- American -- General. African Americans in literature African Americans -- Intellectual life African Americans -- Politics and government American poetry American poetry -- African American authors Communism and literature Political poetry, American Race relations Race relations in literature Right and left (Political science) in literature Die Linke Kommunismus Lyrik Schwarze Letterkunde. Gedichten. Marxisme. Amerikaans. Zwarten. SUBJECT United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494 Subject United States USA Schwärze Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 1423759923 9781423759928 1602566542 9781602566545

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