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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
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  • American Night: The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War
  • Written by author Alan M. Wald
  • Published by University of North Carolina Press, The, 10/15/2012
  • 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
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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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