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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Butts, J.J.

Titel

LITANY OF THE LEFT: ALAN M. WALD'S "AMERICAN LITERARY LEFT" TRILOGY

Ist Teil von

• Reviews in American History, 2013-12, Vol.41 (4), p.702-709

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Project MUSE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• While this policy shift was consequential and yielded a number of schisms and defections, Wald illustrates that it did not produce an absolute break in literary practice, nor did it silence debates about the role, appropriate content, and form of engaged literature.\n Biographical links to two other major centers of cultural activity during the Depression-Hollywood and the Federal Writers' Project-appear regularly throughout the trilogy but remain largely unexplored as influences or outlets. Wald has supplied readers with a fantastic and thorough record of how committed writers on the Left continued to work the vein of social justice well beyond the 1930s in a wide range of literary forms, putting to rest the myth of the Red Decade. [...]through archival research and interviews, he has restored to scholarly memory the lives of a number of authors and critics from a di- verse social milieu, illuminating connections that will be valuable to social, cultural, and literary historians for the years ahead.