Ebook: Exiles from a Future Time: the Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left

Cover; Contents; Preface; A Note on the Terminology and Illustrations; Introduction: Strange Communists I Have Known; Chapter 1. American Jeremiad; Recording Angel; Shakespeare in Overalls; Poems for Workers; ''Write It Plain''; Revolutionary Romanticism; Chapter 2. Inventing Mike Gold; ''A Kind of Cheeky Krazy Kat''; ''By Street Life and Thunder''; Poverty Is a Trap; Meyerhold in Harlem; The Van Gogh of a Darker Time; The Gold Standard; Chapter 3. The Great Promise; Living in a ''State of Emergency''; ''Waiting for Trachty''; The Black Cultural Front.;With this book, Alan Wald launches a bold and passionate account of the U.S. Literary Left from the 1920s through the 1960s. Exiles from a Future Time, the first volume of a trilogy, focuses on the forging of a Communist-led literary tradition in the 1930s. Exploring writers' intimate lives and heartfelt political commitments, Wald draws on original research in scores of archives and personal collections of papers; correspondence and interviews with hundreds of writers and their friends and families; and a treasure trove of unpublished memoirs, fiction, and poetry. In fashioning.