The “moderns” and the formation of an American political avant-garde at the turn of the 1920s and 1930s (Transition, New Masses, Contact)
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23 septembre 2016
- doi: 10.4000/books.pur.38439
- isbn: 9782753512948
- eisbn: 9782753547261
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Céline Mansanti, « The “moderns” and the formation of an American political avant-garde at the turn of the 1920s and 1930s (Transition, New Masses, Contact) », Presses universitaires de Rennes, ID : 10.4000/books.pur.38439
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In his book published in 1996, The Cultural Front : The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century, Michael Denning delineates three groups of intellectuals who participate in the formation of a proletarian avant-garde in the United States at the end of the 1920s and through the 1930s. These groups are the “plebeians” (such as Mike Gold, Richard Wright, Tillie Olsen, or Clifford Odets), the “immigrates” (like Fritz Lang, Bertolt Brecht, André Breton or Philip Rahv) and the previous...