Modernism on file[electronic resourc...
Culleton, Claire A.

 

  • Modernism on file[electronic resource] :writers, artists, and the FBI, 1920-1950 /
  • Record Type: Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
    [NT 15000414]: 810.9/112
    Title/Author: Modernism on file : writers, artists, and the FBI, 1920-1950 // edited by Claire A. Culleton and Karen Leick.
    other author: Culleton, Claire A.
    Published: New York : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2008.
    Description: vi, 269 p.
    Subject: American literature - History and criticism. - 20th century
    Subject: Politics and literature - History - 20th century. - United States
    Subject: Literature and state - History - 20th century. - United States
    Subject: Art and state - History - 20th century. - United States
    Subject: Freedom of speech - History - 20th century. - United States
    Subject: Anti-communist movements - History - 20th century. - United States
    Subject: Modernism (Literature) - United States.
    Subject: Modernism (Art) - United States.
    ISBN: 9780230610392
    ISBN: 0230610390
    [NT 15000227]: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    [NT 15000228]: Ghostreaders and diaspora-writers: four theses on the FBI and African American modernism / William J. Maxwell -- Raising Muscovite ducks and government suspicions: Henry Roth and the FBI / Steven G. Kellman -- Telling stories from Hemingway's FBI file: conspiracy, paranoia, and masculinity / Debra A. Moddelmog -- Most wanted: Claude McKay and the "black specter" of African American poetry in the 1920s / Josh Gosciak -- Madness, paranoia, and Ezra Pound's FBI file / Karen Leick -- Investigative savagery: figuring Hoover in Richard Wright's Savage Holiday / Andrew Strombeck -- "Poetess probed as red": Muriel Rukeyser and the FBI /Jeanne Perreault -- An archive of the (political) unconscious: Jean Renoir at the FBI / Christopher Faulkner -- New information from the FBI,CNDI LA-BB-1: the surveillance of Bertolt Brecht's telephone in Los Angeles / Alexander Stephan, translated by EmilyBanwell -- Sour notes: Hanns Eisler and the FBI / James Wierzbicki -- Communism, perversion, and other crimes against the state: the FBI files of Klaus and Erika Mann/ Andrea Weiss -- Extorting HenryHolt & Co.: J. Edgar Hoover and the publishing industry / Claire A. Culleton.
    [NT 15000229]: Modernism on File: Writers, Artists, and the FBI, 1920-1950 brings together important new scholarship focused on J. Edgar Hoover's FBI and its institutional presence in shaping and directing American print, film, and art culture. From Harlem to Hollywood, Hoover and his bureau workers were bent on decontaminating America's creativity and this collection looks at the writers and artists who were tagged, tracked, and in some cases, trapped by the FBI. Contributors detail the threatening aspects of political power and critique the very historiography of modernism, acknowledging that modernism was on trial during those years.
    Online resource: access to fulltext (Palgrave)
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