Alan M. Wald
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807835869
- eISBN:
- 9781469601502
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807837344_wald.9
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
This chapter focuses on three African American writers of the Depression generation: Chester Himes, Ralph Ellison, and Richard Wright. Their respective Communist autobiographies—The Lonely Crusade ...
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This chapter focuses on three African American writers of the Depression generation: Chester Himes, Ralph Ellison, and Richard Wright. Their respective Communist autobiographies—The Lonely Crusade (1947), Invisible Man (1952), and The Outsider (1953)—depicting Black men repudiating the Party as an organization and defying the boundaries of Communist propriety, contributed to the postwar renovation of the Black protest tradition.Less
This chapter focuses on three African American writers of the Depression generation: Chester Himes, Ralph Ellison, and Richard Wright. Their respective Communist autobiographies—The Lonely Crusade (1947), Invisible Man (1952), and The Outsider (1953)—depicting Black men repudiating the Party as an organization and defying the boundaries of Communist propriety, contributed to the postwar renovation of the Black protest tradition.
