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Bohemian Bolsheviks
Dispatches from the Culture and History of the Left
Series: - Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume: 344
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The rubric, âBohemian Bolsheviks,â captures Alan Waldâs sustained fascination with persistent contradictions between the image of Left political commitment and the actuality of experience, especially in relation to cultural work and cultural workers. Marxist political alignment engages a welter of intimate and biographical factors enriching the record of a varied history of fiction, poetry, literary criticism, and other intellectual practices. Exploring a field of study marked by enduring paradoxes of modernity, this volume is a sharp reminder that historical narrative not only shapes our sense of the terrain under our feetâbut also the horizon in front of us.
Listen to the interview on his book with Alan Wald, conducted by Stephen Dozeman, on New Books Network.
Listen to the interview on his book with Alan Wald, conducted by Stephen Dozeman, on New Books Network.
Alan M. Wald, H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan, is the author of eight books on United States Literary Radicalism, including The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980s (1987).
Acknowledgments
Introductionâ Marxism and Literary Radicalism: Methodology, Memory, and the Lure of Easy History
1 Inconvenient Truths: The Communist Conundrum in Life and Art
2 The Culture War Over Literary Communism
3 Imagined Solidarities: The Bolshevik Revolution and the Literary Left
4 Reconstructing the âHumanscapeâ of Left Culture and Commitment: An Interview with Alan Wald
5 Noir and the Ebb of Radical Hope
6 Steinbeck and the Proletarian Novel
7 Back to the Future in Howard Fastâs Freedom Road
8 American Poetry and the Popular Front
9 The Murdered Dreams of Aaron Kramer: A Marxist Poet In The âAmerican Centuryâ
10 Heroâ International Brigade
11 Marxism and the Modernist Poet: A Tale of Two Delmores
12 Bohemian Bolsheviks After World WarII: A Minority Within a Minority
13 Sanora Babb in Her Time and Ours
14 âSexing the Left: Interview with Alan M.Wald,â by William J.Maxwell
15 Wheelwright and His Kind
16 Motleyâs Men: The Queer Haunting of We Fished All Night
17 The Trotskyist Time Forgot: The Permanent Rebellion of Nicolas Calas
18 The Red and the Queer
19 The Marxist Imagination of Theodore Ward
(September15, 1902âMay8, 1983)
20 Race and the Logic of Capital
21 Protesting the Protest Novel: Richard Wrightâs The Man Who Lived Underground
22 The Black Internationalism of William Gardner Smith
23 Blood on the Forge: A Masterful Proletarian Novel
24 From âTriple Oppressionâ to âFreedom Dreamsâ
25 âA Seemingly Incongruous Allianceâ: Bryan Palmer, Revolutionary Teamsters
26 Trotsky: Between the Power and the Dream
27 Fascinating Antifascism: Enzo Traversoâs Fire and Blood
28 A Theater for the Poor: Cleveland and SDS/ERAP in the Mid-1960s
29 Gramsciâs Gift
30 H.Chandler Davis, a Lifelong Radical and a Moral Touchstone for the Left
31 The Straight and the Crooked: BDS Versus Settler-Colonialism
32 Riddle Me This, Comrade: 100 Years of US Communism
33 Protest, Passion, Politics
34 Reaching for Revolution
35 The Present of Future Things
36 Astonished by the Present: The Impatient Life of Daniel Bensäid
37 Missives for the Future: Michael Löwyâs Close Encounters with the US Left
Bibliography
Index
Introductionâ Marxism and Literary Radicalism: Methodology, Memory, and the Lure of Easy History
Part1 The Left in US Literature
1 Inconvenient Truths: The Communist Conundrum in Life and Art
2 The Culture War Over Literary Communism
3 Imagined Solidarities: The Bolshevik Revolution and the Literary Left
4 Reconstructing the âHumanscapeâ of Left Culture and Commitment: An Interview with Alan Wald
5 Noir and the Ebb of Radical Hope
Part2 Fiction and Poetry
6 Steinbeck and the Proletarian Novel
7 Back to the Future in Howard Fastâs Freedom Road
8 American Poetry and the Popular Front
9 The Murdered Dreams of Aaron Kramer: A Marxist Poet In The âAmerican Centuryâ
10 Heroâ International Brigade
11 Marxism and the Modernist Poet: A Tale of Two Delmores
Part3 Gender and the Left
12 Bohemian Bolsheviks After World WarII: A Minority Within a Minority
13 Sanora Babb in Her Time and Ours
14 âSexing the Left: Interview with Alan M.Wald,â by William J.Maxwell
15 Wheelwright and His Kind
16 Motleyâs Men: The Queer Haunting of We Fished All Night
17 The Trotskyist Time Forgot: The Permanent Rebellion of Nicolas Calas
18 The Red and the Queer
Part4 Race and Class
19 The Marxist Imagination of Theodore Ward
(September15, 1902âMay8, 1983)
20 Race and the Logic of Capital
21 Protesting the Protest Novel: Richard Wrightâs The Man Who Lived Underground
22 The Black Internationalism of William Gardner Smith
23 Blood on the Forge: A Masterful Proletarian Novel
24 From âTriple Oppressionâ to âFreedom Dreamsâ
Part5 Commitment
25 âA Seemingly Incongruous Allianceâ: Bryan Palmer, Revolutionary Teamsters
26 Trotsky: Between the Power and the Dream
27 Fascinating Antifascism: Enzo Traversoâs Fire and Blood
28 A Theater for the Poor: Cleveland and SDS/ERAP in the Mid-1960s
29 Gramsciâs Gift
30 H.Chandler Davis, a Lifelong Radical and a Moral Touchstone for the Left
31 The Straight and the Crooked: BDS Versus Settler-Colonialism
Part6 The Radical Vision
32 Riddle Me This, Comrade: 100 Years of US Communism
33 Protest, Passion, Politics
34 Reaching for Revolution
35 The Present of Future Things
36 Astonished by the Present: The Impatient Life of Daniel Bensäid
37 Missives for the Future: Michael Löwyâs Close Encounters with the US Left
Bibliography
Index
This book is particularly relevant for students, activists, and scholars interested in various aspects of the Marxist Left's cultural tradition, especially (but not exclusively) in the United States. With its wealth of original and often rare research on the subject by a leading academic in the field, it should also appeal to university and institute libraries.