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Maxwell, William J. "Dialectical Engagements: The New Negro and the Old Left, 1918-1940," Department of English, Duke University, December 1993.
This study reexamines the relations among black writers, white writers, and Marxism on the “Old,” pro-Soviet left in the wake of recent postmodern accounts of racial identity, revisionist histories of American radicalism, comparative models for the study of American literatures, and the “death of Communism.” I focus on the active engagement of black writers with “white” Marxism and with whites who shared their eagerness to represent changing relationships between blackness and labor. I argue that the presence of a renascent cultural left helped the Harlem Renaissance to produce a theory of the “New Negro,” even as I challenge the assumption that the black writer’s encounters with proletarian literature and Marxist racial thought were not mutually redefining.
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