American Night : the Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War.
by
Wald, Alan M.
Title
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American Night : the Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War.
Author
:
Wald, Alan M.
ISBN
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9780807837344
9781469601502
Publication Information
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Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Physical Description
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1 online resource (433 pages)
Abstract
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American Night, the final volume of an unprecedented trilogy, brings Alan Wald's multigenerational history of Communist writers to a poignant climax. Using new research to explore the intimate lives of novelists, poets, and critics during the Cold War, Wald reveals a radical community longing for the rebirth of the social vision of the 1930s and struggling with a loss of moral certainty as the Communist worldview was being called into question. The resulting literature, Wald shows, is a haunting record of fracture and struggle linked by common structures of feeling, ones more suggestive of the.
Subject Term
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Right and left (Political science) in literature.
Socialism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Communism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Electronic Access
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Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | [[missing key: search.ChildField.HOLDING]] | Status |
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Online Library | E-Book | 376893-1001 | ONLINE | | Elektronik Kütüphane |