{"product_id":"the-new-red-negro-the-literary-left-and-african-american-poetry-1930-1946-9780195120547","title":"The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): James E. Smethurst\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New Red Negro\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe ideology of the Communist Left as particularly expressed through cultural institutions of the literary Left significantly influenced the shape of African-American poetry in the 1930s and 40s, as well as the content. One result of this engagement of African-American writers with the organized Left was a pronounced tendency to regard the re-created folk or street voice as the authentic voice--and subject--of African-American poetry. Furthermore, a masculinist rhetoric was crucial to the re-creation of this folk voice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis unstable yoking of cultural nationalism, integrationism, and internationalism within a construct of class struggle helped to shape a new relationship of African-American poetry to vernacular African-American culture. This relationship included the representation of African-American working class and rural folk life and its cultural products ostensibly from the mass perspective. It also included the dissemination of urban forms of African-American popular culture, often resulting in mixed media high- low hybrids.","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47591312261271,"sku":"9780195120547","price":8899.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780195120547.webp?v=1774972406","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-new-red-negro-the-literary-left-and-african-american-poetry-1930-1946-9780195120547","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}