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Preface xi
Introduction Late Antifascism 1
Chapter 1 Postwar 22
The Culture Wars of Kenneth Fearing 22
The Mask of Irony 27
Rage against the Machine 33
Study in Fundamentals 37
The Virtue of intentions 41
Chapter 2 Scenes from a Class Struggle 49
Somewhere beyond Proletarianism 49
The Intellectual under Fire 55
The Making of Zhdanovists 60
Grand Illusions 70
Humboldt's Gift 75
Chapter 3 The Cult of Reason 84
Coming Home 84
After the Popular Front 92
The Sublime Saxton 98
The Ruins of Memory 103
Gender and the Crisis of Form 107
Chapter 4 The "Homintem" Reconsidered 117
Butterfly Friends 117
The Closeted Past 127
The Double Life of Harry Dana 134
Tough Guys 139
Mama's Boys 144
Chapter 5 Lonely Crusaders, Part I 150
The Great Outsider 150
"I Tried to Be a Communist" 156
Personal History 163
American Pages 169
The Radical Stranger 174
Chapter 6 Lonely Crusaders, Part II 179
Melville in Old Saybrook 179
Contingencies of Gender 184
The Fog 190
The Etiology of Mourning 195
Red, Black, and Gay 201
Exile and Its Discontents 208
Chapter 7 Jews without Judaism 216
Deconversion and Disavowal 216
Friends of the Unconscious 225
Analytical Realism 230
The Book of Memory 238
A Novel of Emotions 243
Chapter 8 Off Modernity's Grid 250
The Strange Career of People's Poetry 250
Imaginary Friends 256
Memories of the Future 265
Socialist Surrealism 271
Auden in Brooklyn 281
Conclusion The Sense of an Ending 292
The Afterlife of Literary Communism 292
The Indeterminacy of Art 296
The Presence of an Absence 304
A Note on Methodology 319
Notes 325
Acknowledgments 391
Index 397
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Add American Night: The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War, American Night, the final volume of an unprecedented trilogy, brings Alan Wald's multigenerational history of Communist writers to a poignant climax. Using new research to explore the intimate lives of novelists, poets, and critics during the Cold , American Night: The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War to your collection on WonderClub |