The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Permissions v
• Acknowledgments ix
• Contents xi
• Introduction - Of the Coming of the New Red Negro 3
• 1 - African-American Poetry, Ideology, and the Left during the 1930s and 1940s from Third Period to the Popular Front and Beyond 16
• 2 - The Strong Men Gittin' Stronger 60
• 3 - Adventures of a Social Poet 93
• 4 - I Am Black and I Have Seen Black Hands the Narratorial Consciousness and Constructions of the Folk in 1930s African-American Poetry 116
• 5 - Hughes's Shakespeare in Harlem and the Rise of a Popular Neomodernism 144
• 6 - Hysterical Ties Gwendolyn Brooks and the Rise of a "High" Neomodernism 164
• 7 - The Popular Front, World War II, and the Rise of Neomodernism in African-American Poetry of the 1940s 180
• Conclusion - Sullen Bakeries of Total Recall 208
• Notes 215
• Works Consulted 255
• Index 277