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.
About the AuthorLinda M. Grasso is Associate Professor of English at York College, City University of New York.
Book InformationISBN 9780807853498
Author Alan M. WaldFormat Paperback
Page Count 432
Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The University of North Carolina Press
Weight(grams) 602g