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American Night
The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War
Alan M. Wald
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 10/2012
Pages: 432
Subject: Literary Criticism, History
| University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807837344
DESCRIPTION
Establishing new points of contact among Kenneth Fearing, Ann Petry, Alexander Saxton, Richard Wright, Jo Sinclair, Thomas McGrath, and Carlos Bulosan, Wald argues that these writers were in dialogue with psychoanalysis, existentialism, and postwar modernism, often generating moods of piercing emotional acuity and cosmic dissent. He also recounts the contributions of lesser known cultural workers, with a unique accent on gays and lesbians, secular Jews, and people of color. The vexing ambiguities of an era Wald labels "late antifascism" serve to frame an impressive collective biography.
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