02870cmm a2200409 4500 214822054 TxAuBib 20120507120000.0 060320s1999||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781423759928 electronic bk. 1423759923 electronic bk. 9781602566545 1602566542 (OCoLC)65171409 N$T eng N$T OCLCQ YDXCP NRU MT4IT QE2 IDEBK E7B TUU OCLCQ TxAuBib Smethurst, James Edward. The new red Negro [electronic resource] : the literary left and African American poetry, 1930-1946 / James Edward Smethurst. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. 1 online resource (xii, 288 p.) Race and American culture Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-275) and index. Introduction: Of the coming of the new red negro -- African-American poetry, ideology, and the left during the 1930s and 1940s from the third period to the popular front and beyond -- "The strong men gittin' stronger": Sterling Brown and the respresentation and re-creation of the southern folk voice -- "Adventures of a social poet": Langston Highes in the 1930s -- "I am black and I have seen black hands": The narratorial consciousness and constructions of the folk in 1930s African-American poetry -- Hughes's Shakespeare in Harlem and the rise of popular neomodernism --Hysterical ties: Gwendolyn Brooks and the rise of a "high" neomodernism -- The popular front, World War II, and the rise of neomoderism in African-American poetry of the 1940s -- Conclusion: Sullen bakeries of total recall.". This text surveys African American poetry between the onset of the Depression and the early days of the Cold War. It considers the relationship between the thematic and formal choices of African American poets, and organized ideology from "proletarian" early 1930s to the "neo-modernist" late 1940s. United States Declaration of Independence Race relations. American poetry African American authors History and criticism. American poetry 20th century History and criticism. Communism and literature United States History 20th century. African Americans Intellectual life 20th century. African Americans Politics and government. Political poetry, American History and criticism. Right and left (Political science) in literature. African Americans in literature. Race relations in literature. Poetry American General. Electronic books. Race and American culture. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=151134 EBSCOhost