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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Named Person: | Langston Hughes; Chester B Himes; Oliver W Harrington |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Brian Dolinar |
ISBN: | 9781617032691 1617032697 9781617032707 1617032700 9781628461718 1628461713 |
OCLC Number: | 756837048 |
Description: | x, 277 pages ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | The National Negro Congress and the radical roots of the black cultural front -- When a man sees red: Langston Hughes and the simple stories -- A writer of revolutionary potential: Chester Himes and black noir -- Battling fascism for years with the might of his pen: Ollie Harrington and the Bootsie cartoons -- Conclusion: Keeping the memory of survival alive. |
Series Title: | Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies. |
Responsibility: | Brian Dolinar. |
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"Although I have been reading and researching in this field for over a decade, I found every chapter of The Black Cultural Front: Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation a revelation. Skillfully maneuvering between explorations of aesthetics, history, and politics, Brian Dolinar teases out the many threads that produced the specific and unique expressions of Left radicalism in the life and work of Langston Hughes, Chester Himes, and Oliver Harrington."--Mary Helen Washington, author of The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s "Brian Dolinar's The Black Cultural Front is essential reading for students and scholars of the African American Left. Deeply researched and eye-opening, Dolinar brings up challenging questions about the politics of popular culture to provide a rare, ingenious, and powerfully argued reconceptualization of the literary and artistic achievements of three major black radicals."--Alan Wald, author of American Night: The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War and H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor, University of Michigan "[As] Dolinar shows in a story buttressed by an array of source materials, the black reds' cultural products and political goals remained almost wholly homegrown, which is why they were consistently effective in uniting and inspiring the black public."-John Woodford, The Black Scholar Read more...


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