History, Memory, and the Literary Left: Modern American Poetry, 19351968 (Contemp North American Poetry),Used

History, Memory, and the Literary Left: Modern American Poetry, 19351968 (Contemp North American Poetry),Used

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In this nuanced revisionist history of modern American poetry, John Lowney investigates the Depression eras impact on late modernist American poetry from the socioeconomic crisis of the 1930s through the emergence of the new social movements of the 1960s. Informed by an ongoing scholarly reconsideration of 1930s American culture and concentrating on Left writers whose historical consciousness was profoundly shaped by the Depression, World War II, and the Cold War, Lowney articulates the Lefts challenges to national collective memory and redefines the importance of late modernism in American literary history. The late modernist writers Lowney studies most closelyMuriel Rukeyser, Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Thomas McGrath, and George Oppenare not all customarily associated with the 1930s, nor are they commonly seen as literary peers. By examining these late modernist writers comparatively, Lowney foregrounds differences of gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, and social class and region while emphasizing how each writer developed poetic forms that responded to the cultural politics and socioaesthetic debates of the 1930s. In so doing he calls into question the boundaries that have limited the scholarly dialogue about modern poetry. No other study of American poetry has considered the particular gathering of careers that Lowney considers. As poets whose collective historical consciousness was profoundly shaped by the turmoil of the Depression and war years and the Cold Wars repression or rewriting of history, their diverse talents represent a distinct generational impact on U.S. and international literary history.

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