The indignant generation : a narrative history of African American writers and critics, 1934-1960 / Lawrence P. Jackson.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jackson, Lawrence Patrick
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2011, [©2010]
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
African American critics.
African Americans > Race identity.
African American arts > 20th century.
Physical Description:xiv, 579 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Three swinging sisters: Harlem, Howard, and the South Side (1934-1936)
  • The Black avant-garde between Left and Right (1935-1939)
  • A new kind of challenge (1936-1939)
  • The triumph of Chicago realism (1938-1940)
  • Bigger Thomas among the liberals (1940-1943)
  • Friends in need of Negroes: Bucklin Moon and Thomas Sancton (1942-1945)
  • "Beating that boy": white writers, critics, editors, and the Liberal Arts Coalition (1944-1949)
  • Afroliberals and the end of World War II (1945-1946)
  • Black futilitarianists and the welcome table (1945-1947)
  • The peril of something new, or, the decline of social realism (1947-1948)
  • The Negro new liberal critic and the big little magazine (1948-1949)
  • The Communist dream of African American modernism (1947-1950)
  • The insinuating poetics of the mainstream (1949-1950)
  • Still looking for freedom (1949-1954)
  • The expatriation: the price of Brown and the new Bohemians (1952-1955)
  • Liberal friends no more: the rubble of white patronage (1956-1958)
  • The end of the Negro writer (1955-1960)
  • The reformation of Black new liberals (1958-1960)
  • Prometheus unbound (1958-1960).