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Author:

Mullen, Bill, 1959-

Title:

Popular fronts : Chicago and African-American cultural politics, 1935-46 / Bill V. Mullen.

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xxix, 242 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Subject:

American literature--Chicago--Chicago--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
African Americans--Chicago--Chicago--Intellectual life.
African Americans--Chicago--Chicago--Social conditions.
Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Chicago.--Chicago.
Chicago (Ill.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
African Americans in literature
Chicago (Ill.)--In literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Chicago and the politics of reputation: Richard Wright's long black shadow -- Turning white space into black space: The Chicago defender and the creation of the cultural front -- Artists in uniform: the south side community art center and the defense of culture -- Workers-writers in Bronzeville: negro story and the African-American "little" magazine -- Genre politics/cultural politics: the short story and the new black fiction market -- Engendering the cultural front: Gwendolyn Brooks, black women, and class struggle in poetry -- American daughters, fifth columns, and lonely crusades: purge, emigration, and exile in Chicago -- Postscript: Bronzeville today.

ISBN:

0252081072 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780252081071 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)907621541

LCCN:

2014050171

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)