Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature between the Wars: A New Pandoraâ??s Box

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi Part I: Nationalism in the Harlem Renaissance Chapter 1. Black Nationalist Discourse in the Postwar Period 3 Chapter 2. The Dual Nationalism of Alain Locke’s The New Negro 30 Chapter 3. The Dance of Nationalism in the Harlem Renaissance 48 Part II: Internationalism and African American Writing in the 1930s Chapter 4. Marxism and Black Proletarian Literary Theory 73 Chapter 5. Langston Hughes’s Radical Poetry and the ‘‘End of Race’’ 92 Chapter 6. Richard Wright’s Critique of Nationalist Desire 111 Afterword: Beyond Twentieth-Century Nationalisms in the Study of African American Culture 135 Bibliography 141 Index 157 This page intentionally left blank ...