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26%OFFWilliam Maxwell - New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism Between the Wars - 9780231114257 - V9780231114257
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New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism Between the Wars

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Description for New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism Between the Wars Paperback. Maxwell uncovers both black literature's debt to Communism and Communism's debt to black literature, reciprocal obligations first incurred during the Harlem Renaissance. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; JFSL3; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.
Howard "Stretch" Johnson, a charismatic Harlemite who graduated from Cotton Club dancer to Communist Party youth leader, once claimed that in late 1930s New York "75% of black cultural figures had Party membership or maintained regular meaningful contact with the Party." He stretched the truth, but barely. In a broad-ranging, revisionary account of the extensive relationship between African-American literary culture and Communism in the 1920s and 1930s, 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, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press New York
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231114257
SKU
V9780231114257
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About William Maxwell
William J. Maxwell is assistant professor of English and an affiliate of the Afro-American Studies and Research Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Reviews for New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism Between the Wars
Lucidly argued and written, New Negro, Old Left is an astute, original addition to work on the Harlem Renaissance, proletarian literature and, in particular, the often misrepresented relationship between them. American Studies William Maxwell's creative and compelling new book presents the case for a mutual indebtedness, a two-way channel 'between radical Harlem and Soviet Moscow, between the New Negro renaissance ... Read more

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