{"product_id":"new-red-negro-the","title":"New Red Negro, The","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. The ideology of the\n\u003cbr\u003eCommunist 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\n\u003cbr\u003ethis 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. This 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\n\u003cbr\u003evernacular 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.\n\u003cbr\u003eIt also included the dissemination of urban forms of African-American popular culture, often resulting in mixed media high- low hybrids.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44156324872430,"sku":"9780195120547","price":331.74,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/new-red-negro-the","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}