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The Indignant Generation : : a Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960

Jackson, Lawrence Patrick. Book - 2010 Black Studies 810.989 Ja 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 0 out of 5

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Three swinging sisters: Harlem, Howard and the South Side (1934-1936) -- The Black avant-garde between Left and Right (1935-1939) -- A new kind of challenge (1936-1939) -- The triumph of Chicago realism (1938-1940) -- Bigger Thomas among the liberals (1940-1943) -- Friends in need of Negroes: Bucklin Moon and Thomas Sancton (1942-1945) -- "Beating that boy": white writers, critics, editors, and the Liberal Arts Coalition (1944-1949) -- Afroliberals and the end of World War II (1945-1946) -- Black futilitarianists and the welcome table (1945-1947) -- The peril of something new, or, the decline of social realism (1947-1948) -- The Negro new liberal critic and the big little magazine (1948-1949) -- The Communist dream of African American modernism (1947-1950) -- The insinuating poetics of the mainstream (1949-1950) -- Still looking for freedom (1949-1954) -- The expatriation: the price of brown & the new Bohemians (1952-1955) -- Liberal friends no more: the rubble of white patronage (1956-1958) -- The end of the Negro writer (1955-1960) -- The reformation of Black new liberals (1958-1960) -- Prometheus unbound (1958-1960).

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PUBLISHED
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: 579 p.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780691141350 (cloth : alk. paper)
0691141355 (cloth : alk. paper)

SUBJECTS
American literature -- History and criticism.
African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
African American critics.
African Americans -- Race identity.
African American arts -- 20th century.