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Addresses the political and aesthetic evolution of African American literature and its authors during the Cold War, an era McCarthy calls the Blue Period. In the years after World War II, to be a black writer was to face a stark predicament. The contest between the Soviet Union and the United States was a global onean ideological battle that dominated almost every aspect of the cultural agenda. On the one hand was the Soviet Union, espousing revolutionary communism that promised egalitarianism while being hostile to conceptions of personal freedom. On the other hand was the United States, a country steeped in racial prejudice and the policies of Jim Crow. Black writers of this time were equally alienated from the left and the right, Jesse McCarthy argues, and they channeled that alienation into remarkable experiments in literary form. Embracing racial affect and interiority, they forged an aesthetic resistance premised on fierce dissent from both US racial liberalism and Soviet comm

The Blue Period

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    Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
    Publication Date: 4/25/2024
    ISBN13: 9780226830377, 978-0226830377
    ISBN10: 0226830373

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

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    Addresses the political and aesthetic evolution of African American literature and its authors during the Cold War, an era McCarthy calls the Blue Period. In the years after World War II, to be a black writer was to face a stark predicament. The contest between the Soviet Union and the United States was a global onean ideological battle that dominated almost every aspect of the cultural agenda. On the one hand was the Soviet Union, espousing revolutionary communism that promised egalitarianism while being hostile to conceptions of personal freedom. On the other hand was the United States, a country steeped in racial prejudice and the policies of Jim Crow. Black writers of this time were equally alienated from the left and the right, Jesse McCarthy argues, and they channeled that alienation into remarkable experiments in literary form. Embracing racial affect and interiority, they forged an aesthetic resistance premised on fierce dissent from both US racial liberalism and Soviet comm

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