'bitter with the Past But Sweet with the Dream': Communism in the African American Imaginary: Representations of the Communist Party, 1940-1952 by Cathy Bergin

'bitter with the Past But Sweet with the Dream': Communism in the African American Imaginary: Representations of the Communist Party, 1940-1952

Cathy Bergin

232 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The legacy of the relationship between African American writers and Communism in the US is a contested one. Bergin argues that in three novels, by seminal mid-century authors (Wright, Himes and Ellison) Communism is not dismissed as incapable of m...

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