Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature between the Wars : A New Pandora's Box

在哈萊姆文藝復興時期和之後，兩種知識分子 - 民族主義和馬克思主義 - 發生衝突並改變了非洲裔美國人寫作的未來。當前的文學思想認為，具有民族主義傾向的作家寫下了當時最相關的小說、詩歌和散文。民族主義，馬克思主義和非洲裔美國文學之間的戰爭：一個新的潘多拉盒子挑戰了這個概念。

它大膽地提出，像經常在階級鬥爭中看世界的A. Philip Randolph，Langston Hughes和Richard Wright這樣的作家，比起Countee Cullen這樣的作家，推動非裔美國人信件的反種族主義政治更多， Jessie Redmon Fauset，Alain Locke和Marcus Garvey，他們仍然沉浸在民族主義和種族主義話語中。評估馬克思主義和民族主義對哈萊姆文藝復興和大蕭條時期黑人作家的巨大影響，Anthony Dawahare認為，民族主義意識形態和世界大戰之間的運動傳播確實引導黑人作家對沒有種族主義世界的合法政治慾望。

但民族主義的政治和文化抵抗渠道沒有解決現代種族歧視的資本主義基礎。在被稱為“紅色十年”（1929-1941）的時期，黑人作家對資本主義世界發表了一些最尖銳的批評，從而期待當代關於民族主義對工人階級的知識和政治危害的學術研究。在審視大蕭條的進展時，本書側重於黑人作家向共產主義左派的轉變，包括分析共產黨人對“黑人問題”的立場，Langston Hughes的激進詩歌以及Richard Wright的著作。

During and after the Harlem Renaissance, two intellectual forces --nationalism and Marxism--clashed and changed the future of African American writing. Current literary thinking says that writers with nationalist leanings wrote the most relevant fiction, poetry, and prose of the day. Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature Between the Wars: A New Pandora's Box challenges that notion.

It boldly proposes that such writers as A. Philip Randolph, Langston Hughes, and Richard Wright, who often saw the world in terms of class struggle, did more to advance the anti-racist politics of African American letters than writers such as Countee Cullen, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Alain Locke, and Marcus Garvey, who remained enmeshed in nationalist and racialist discourse. Evaluating the great impact of Marxism and nationalism on black authors from the Harlem Renaissance and the Depression era, Anthony Dawahare argues that the spread of nationalist ideologies and movements between the world wars did guide legitimate political desires of black writers for a world without racism.

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But the nationalist channels of political and cultural resistance did not address the capitalist foundation of modern racial discrimination. During the period known as the ""Red Decade"" (1929-1941), black writers developed some of the sharpest critiques of the capitalist world and thus anticipated contemporary scholarship on the intellectual and political hazards of nationalism for the working class. As it examines the progression of the Great Depression, the book focuses on the shift of black writers to the Communist Left, including analyses of the Communists' position on the ""Negro Question,"" the radical poetry of Langston Hughes, and the writings of Richard Wright.

  Anthony Dawahare (Autor)

Publisher:University Press of Mississippi 

ISBN:    978-1578065073 

原價   US 40 台幣價 NT$1360