Bücher von Alan M. Wald

In this study of two neglected New England poets, Alan Wald challenges the literary culture that has obscured the radical and Marxist heritage of American letters in our century. "Simply by aspiring to accurate historical remembrance," Wald writes, "this book aims to subvert the currently sanctified canon of letters and the vision of society legitimized by its codification."

In contrast to other scholars who emphasize the affinity of the "New York Intellectuals" for literary modernism and its largely Jewish composition as its defining characteristics, Wald finds these traits to be secondary to the group's agonizing efforts in the 1930s and after to build a Marxist alternative to the official Communist movement.

Part of a series of three volumes that track the lives of several generations of US left-wing writers, this volume delves into literary, emotional, and ideological trajectories of radical cultural workers in the era when the International Brigades fought in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and the US battled in World War II (1941-45).

American Night: The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War

An account of the US literary Left from the 1920s to 1960s. The first volume of a trilogy, it focuses on the forging of a Communist-led literary tradition in the 1930s. The author explores the writers' lives and political commitments, drawing on interviews, letters, memoirs, fiction and poetry.