The New Red Negro The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946
, by Smethurst, James EdwardNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780195120547 | 019512054X
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 4/15/1999
This book surveys African American poetry between the onset of theDepression and the early days of the Cold War. The New Red negro considers therelationship between the thematic and formal choices of African American poetsand organized ideology from the "proletarian" early 1930s to the "neo-modernist"late 1940s. This study examines poetry by writers who are canonical, lesswell-known, and virtually unknown.