New Negro, Old Left African-American Writing and Communism Between the Wars

Name: New Negro, Old Left African-American Writing and Communism Between the Wars
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ISBN: 9780231114257

ISBN-10: 0231114257

ISBN-13: 9780231114257

Edition: 1999

Authors: William Maxwell

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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…

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List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 6/17/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.70" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Black and Red All Over?



Kitchen Mechanics and Parlor Nationalists: Andy Razaf, Black Bolshevism, and Harlem's Renaissance



Home to Moscow: Claude McKay's The Negroes in America and the Race of Marxist Theory



The Proletarian as New Negro; the New Negro as Proletarian: Mike Gold Meets Claude McKay



Scottsboro Delimited: White Bait, Red Triangles, and Interracialism Between Men



Black Belt/Black Folk: The End(s) of the Richard Wright-Zora Neale Hurston Debate



Native Sons Divorce: A Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index