The new red Negro

by James Edward Smethurst

"The 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."--BOOK JACKET.