The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946

by James E. Smethurst

The New Red Negro surveys African-American poetry from the onset of the Depression to 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 the proletarian early 1930s to the neo-modernist late 1940s. This study examines poetry by writers across the spectrum: canonical, less well-known, and virtually unknown.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019512054X
• ISBN13: 9780195120547
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"