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Lineages of the Literary Left: Essays in Honor of Alan M. Wald

Edited by Howard Brick, Robbie Lieberman, and Paula Rabinowitz

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/maize.13545968.0001.001

Published by: Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2015.

  

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Table of Contents

• [Dedication]
• Foreword — Mary Helen Washington
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Literary Lineages — Howard Brick, Robbie Lieberman, and Paula Rabinowitz
• Part I. Poems
• 1. The Mirror of the World: Poetry, Defeat, and Resistance — Tariq Ali
• 2. What's Left of Lyric: Genevieve Taggard and the Redefinition of Song — Sarah Ehlers
• 3. The Darker Brother and the Cracker Boy: Langston Hughes, Don West, and Poetry as Social Conversation — Rachel Rubin
• 4. Somebody Loves Us All — Harvey Teres
• Part II. Lives
• 5. A Black Woman Speaks: Beah Richards's Life of Protest and Poetry — Dayo F. Gore
• 6. The Missing Peace: Charlotta Bass and the Vision of the Black Left in the Early Cold War Years — Robbie Lieberman
• 7. Dancing for Stalin: Pauline Koner's "Russian Days" and the Question of Stalinism — Julia L. Mickenberg
• 8. The Revolutionary Meets the Capitalist: Robert Cantwell's Nonfiction Novel about Boston Magnate E. A. Filene — T. V. Reed
• 9. Red Feminists and Methodist Missionaries: Dorothy McConnell and the Other Afterlife of the Popular Front — Chris Vials
• PART III. Novels
• 10. The Crab Cannery Ship Boom, Amamiya Karin, and the Precariat: Dance Dance Revolution? — Heather Bowen-Struyk
• 11. Richard Wright's Poetic Marxism — Konstantina M. Karageorgos
• 12. Writing Brotherhood: The Utopian Politics of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man — Nathaniel Mills
• 13. "That Was One Goddamn Good Left Hook!" Rethinking the Limits of Mass Culture in Len Zinberg's Walk Hard—Talk Loud — Joseph G. Ramsey
• 14. Benjamin Appel's Fortress in the Rice: Forging the Radical Conscience of the Empire — E. San Juan, Jr.
• Part IV: Histories
• 15. Peasant Studies Meets the World System: Eric Wolf, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Visions of Global Capitalism — Howard Brick
• 16. Wrestling with the Legacy of Stalinism: Recent Scholarship on W.E.B. Du Bois and the Left — Bill V. Mullen
• 17. Remembering Nat Turner: Black Artists, Radical History, and Radical Historiography, 1930–55 — James Smethurst
• 18. Marx, Stalin, and Derrida: The Continuing Tension among Marxist Theory, Soviet Communism, and the Poststructuralist Revolution — Cary Nelson
• 19. Jewish Radical Intellectuals in Europe and the United States — Michael Löwy
• 20. The Present of Future Things — Alan Wald
• Studies on the Left: Selected Bibliography of Alan M. Wald
• Contributors
• List of Illustrations

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