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Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left
Author(s): Alan M. Wald (Author)
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication Date: 30 April 2002
- Edition: New
- Language: English
- Print length: 432 pages
- ISBN-10: 0807826839
- ISBN-13: 9780807826836
Book Description
Wald offers a comprehensive history and reconsideration of the U.S. literary left in the mid-twentieth century. Recovering the central role Marxist-influenced writers played in fiction, poetry, theater, and literary criticism, he explores the lives and work of figures including Richard Wright, Muriel Rukeyser, Mike Gold, Claude McKay, Tillie Olsen, and Meridel Le Sueur.
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About the Author
Linda M. Grasso is Associate Professor of English at York College, City University of New York.
