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  • The Red Christ

    The Dangerous Memory of Christianity in Modern U.S. Literatures of Social Protest

    Offers a (re)consideration of the impact of radical conceptions of Christ on modern U.S. literature, its critique of inegalitarian social relations, and its visions for a just society.The Red Christ argues that some of the most popular social protest literature published in the U.S. between 1890 and 1940 was inseparable from "Social Christianity," a historically important movement deeply concerned ... Read more

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  • Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature between the Wars

    A New Pandora's Box

    During and after the Harlem Renaissance, two intellectual forces --nationalism and Marxism--clashed and changed the future of African American writing. Current literary thinking says that writers with nationalist leanings wrote the most relevant fiction, poetry, and prose of the day.Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature Between the Wars: A New Pandora's Box challenges that notion. ... Read more

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    A New Pandora's Box

    During and after the Harlem Renaissance, two intellectual forces—nationalism and Marxism—clashed and changed the future of African American writing. Current literary thinking says that writers with nationalist leanings wrote the most relevant fiction, poetry, and prose of the day.Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature Between the Wars: A New Pandora's Box challenges that notion. It ... Read more

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  • Tillie Olsen and the Dialectical Philosophy of Proletarian Literature

    Series series Innovation and Activism in American Women's Writing
    Contrary to previous studies of Tillie Olsen’s writing, Tillie Olsen and the Dialectical Philosophy of Proletarian Literature analyzes the impact of one of the most important philosophies of the last century, dialectical materialism, on the form and content of Olsen’s fiction. By revealing the unconceptualized dialectics of Olsen’s work and its appreciation by scholars and casual readers, this ... Read more

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  • The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 2

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    Series series Oxford World's Classics
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