TY - BOOK
T1 - 'Bitter with the Past but Sweet with the Dream'
T2 - Communism in the African American Imaginary
AU - Bergin, Catherine
PY - 2015/5/1
Y1 - 2015/5/1
N2 - The book is an examination of the impact of Communism on a generation of African American writers and a consideration of how African American identity in three novels is constructed in relation to the political ideology of the Communist Party. Richard Wright's Native Son (1940), Chester Himes's Lonely Crusade (1947), and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (1952), generate very different black male subjectivities, all of which are predicated on encounters with the Communist Party. A detailed focus on the political milieu in which these texts operate challenges many of the presumptions about the ‘inability' of Communism to comprehend racial oppression which dominate literary critical approaches to these novels
AB - The book is an examination of the impact of Communism on a generation of African American writers and a consideration of how African American identity in three novels is constructed in relation to the political ideology of the Communist Party. Richard Wright's Native Son (1940), Chester Himes's Lonely Crusade (1947), and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (1952), generate very different black male subjectivities, all of which are predicated on encounters with the Communist Party. A detailed focus on the political milieu in which these texts operate challenges many of the presumptions about the ‘inability' of Communism to comprehend racial oppression which dominate literary critical approaches to these novels
U2 - 10.1163/9789004293250
DO - 10.1163/9789004293250
M3 - Book - authored
SN - 9789004263727
T3 - Historical Materialism
BT - 'Bitter with the Past but Sweet with the Dream'
PB - Brill
CY - Netherlands
ER -
