How the Left Made a Culture from Below
from Part III - Situating US Modernism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 July 2023
This chapter reconsiders modernism as a cultural movement from below generated by the rise of a new left-wing, working-class, and radical gathering of writers inspired by world events from the Russian Revolution to the surge of trade unionism. The chapter puts into conversation scholarship on radical American writing with writings on African American and feminist modernisms. The chapter considers what was unique about the form and content of modernist experiment by writers with openly progressive and radical political commitments.
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