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

by Alan M. Wald

Literary Left Trilogy (1)

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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and interviews with hundreds of writers and their friends and show more families; and a treasure trove of unpublished memoirs, fiction, and poetry. In fashioning show less

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Alan M. Wald is professor of English literature and American culture at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

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Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature, Nonfiction
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810.9Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican literature in EnglishHistory and criticism of American literature
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PS228 .C6 .W35Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureBy period20th century
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