{"product_id":"9780195120547","title":"The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe New Red Negro surveys African-American poetry from the onset of the Depression to the early days of the Cold War. It considers the relationship between the thematic and formal choices of African-American poets and organized ideology from the proletarian early 1930s to the neo-modernist late 1940s. This study examines poetry by writers across the spectrum: canonical, less well-known, and virtually unknown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ideology of the Communist Left as particularly expressed through cultural institutions of the literary Left significantly influenced the shape of African-American poetry in the 1930s and 40s, as well as the content. One result of this engagement of African-American writers with the organized Left was a pronounced tendency to regard the re-created folk or street voice as the authentic voice—and subject—of African-American poetry. Furthermore, a masculinist rhetoric was crucial to the re-creation of this folk voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis unstable yoking of cultural nationalism, integrationism, and internationalism within a construct of class struggle helped to shape a new relationship of African-American poetry to vernacular African-American culture. This relationship included the representation of African-American working class and rural folk life and its cultural products ostensibly from the mass perspective. It also included the dissemination of urban forms of African-American popular culture, often resulting in mixed media high- low hybrids.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022567031024,"sku":"9780195120547","price":140.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780195120547_p0.jpg?v=1763664353","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780195120547","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}