Literature and Politics Today: The Political Nature of Modern Fiction, Poetry, and Drama

392 Pages·2015·1.43 MB·English

by  M. Keith Booker

Literature and
Politics Today

Literature and
Politics Today
The Political Nature of Modern
Fiction, Poetry, and Drama
M. KeiTh BooKer, ediTor
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Literature and politics today : the political nature of modern fiction, poetry, and drama /
M. Keith Booker, editor.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-61069-935-8 (hardback) — ISBN 978-1-61069-936-5 (e-book)
1. Politics and literature—Encyclopedias. I. Booker, M. Keith, editor.
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Contents
Preface xiii
A–Z Entries
Abrahams, Peter 1
Achebe, Chinua 2
African American Literature 4
African Literature (Anglophone) 12
African Literature (Francophone) 14
Akhmatova, Anna 16
American Literature 17
Anand, Mulk Raj 20
Anzaldúa, Gloria E. 21
Aragon, Louis 22
Asian American Literature 23
Atwood, Margaret 25
Auden, W. H. 26
Australian Literature 28
Bacigalupi, Paolo 31
Baldwin, James 32
Baraka, Amiri 33
Beat Movement 34
Black Arts Movement 35
Bond, Edward 36
Brazilian Literature 38
Brecht, Bertolt 38
British Immigrant Literature 41
British Literature 42
Bulgakov, Mikhail 45
Bulosan, Carlos 46
Canadian Literature (Anglophone) 49
viii Contents
Canadian Literature (Francophone) 51
Cˇapek, Karel 57
Cardenal, Ernesto 58
Caribbean Literature (Anglophone) 59
Caribbean Literature (Francophone) 62
Carpentier, Alejo 64
Césaire, Aimé 65
Chinese Literature 67
Cold War 69
Collins, Suzanne 71
Cuban Literature 72
Darío, Rubén 77
Day Lewis, C. 78
De Boissière, Ralph 79
Delany, Samuel R. 80
Dick, Philip K. 81
Doctorow, Cory 83
Doctorow, E. L. 84
Dos Passos, John 85
Dr. Seuss 87
Dreiser, Theodore 89
Du Bois, W. E. B. 91
Dystopian Literature 93
Eastern and Central European Literature 97
Eliot, T. S. 100
Fast, Howard 103
Faulkner, William 104
Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) 106
Fowler, Karen Joy 107
Fox, Ralph 108
French Literature 109
García Lorca, Federico 113
García Márquez, Gabriel 114
German Literature 115
Gibbon, Lewis Grassic 118
Ginsberg, Allen 120
Contents ix
Gold, Mike 121
Gordimer, Nadine 122
Gorky, Maxim 124
Guillén, Nicolás 126
Harlem Renaissance 129
Havel, Vaclav 131
Heinlein, Robert 132
Hellman, Lillian 133
Hemingway, Ernest 134
Hernandez, Amado V. 136
Hernández, Miguel 137
Himes, Chester 138
Holocaust Literature 140
Hughes, Langston 141
Huxley, Aldous 142
Indigenismo 145
International Literature 146
Irish Literature 147
Isherwood, Christopher 149
Italian Literature 150
James, C. L. R. 153
Jelinek, Elfriede 155
Jewish American Literature 156
John Reed Clubs 160
Jones, Lewis 161
Joyce, James 162
Kataev, Valentin Petrovich 165
Kipling, Rudyard 166
Kiš, Danilo 167
Koestler, Arthur 168
Kollontai, Alexandra 170
Krleža, Miroslav 171
Kundera, Milan 172
La Guma, Alex 175
Lamming, George 176
Latin American Literature 177