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Nationalism, Marxism, and African American literature between the wars [electronic resource] : a new Pandora's box / Anthony Dawahare.

By: Dawahare, Anthony, 1961-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies: Publisher: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2003Description: xix, 161 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism | Nationalism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Communism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Socialism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Black nationalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century | American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century | African Americans -- Politics and government | African Americans in literature | Black nationalism in literature | Politics in literature | Race in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/896073 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Black nationalist discourse in the postwar period -- The dual nationalism of Alain Locke's The new Negro -- The dance of nationalism in the Harlem Renaissance -- Marxism and Black proletarian literary theory -- Langston Hughes's radical poetry and the "end of race" -- Richard Wright's critique of nationalist desire -- Beyond twentieth-century nationalisms in the study of African American culture.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-156) and index.

Black nationalist discourse in the postwar period -- The dual nationalism of Alain Locke's The new Negro -- The dance of nationalism in the Harlem Renaissance -- Marxism and Black proletarian literary theory -- Langston Hughes's radical poetry and the "end of race" -- Richard Wright's critique of nationalist desire -- Beyond twentieth-century nationalisms in the study of African American culture.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.