The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War by Jesse McCarthy

The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War

Jesse McCarthy

312 pages hardcover 2024

1 edition

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Addresses the political and aesthetic evolution of African American literature and its authors during the Cold War, an era McCarthy calls “the Blue Period.”In the years after World War II, to be a black writer was to face a stark predicament. The ...

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