Title Literature and politics today : the political nature of modern fiction, poetry, and drama / M. Keith Booker, editor

Published Santa Barbara, California : Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 377 pages) Contents Abrahams, Peter -- Achebe, Chinua -- African American literature -- African literature (Anglophone) -- African Literature (Francophone) -- Akhmatova, Anna -- American literature -- Anand, Mulk Raj -- Anzaldua, Gloria E. -- Aragon, Louis -- Asian American literature -- Atwood, Margaret -- Auden, W.H. -- Australian literature -- Bacigalupi, Paolo -- Baldwin, James -- Baraka, Amiri -- Beat movement -- Black arts movement -- Bond, Edward -- Brazilian literature -- Brecht, Bertolt -- British immigrant literature -- British literature -- Bulgakov, Mikhail -- Bulosan, Carlos -- Canadian literature (Anglophone) -- Canadian literature (Francophone) -- Capek, Karel -- Cardenal, Ernesto -- Caribbean literature (Anglophone) -- Caribbean literature (Francophone) -- Carpentier, Alejo -- Cesaire, Aim -- Chinese literature -- Cold War -- Collins, Suzanne -- Cuban literature -- Dario, Ruben -- Day Lewis, C. -- De Boissiere, Ralph -- Delany, Samuel R. -- Dick, Philip K. -- Doctorow, Cory -- Doctorow, E.L. -- Dos Passos, John -- Dr. Seuss -- Dreiser, Theodore -- Du Bois, W.E.B. -- Dystopian literature -- Eastern and Central European literature -- Eliot, T.S. -- Fast, Howard -- Faulkner, William -- Federal Writers' Project (FWP) -- Fowler, Karen Joy -- Fox, Ralph -- French literature -- Garcia Lorca, Federico -- Garcia Marquez, Gabriel -- German literature -- Gibbon, Lewis Grassic -- Ginsberg, Allen -- Gold, Mike -- Gordimer, Nadine -- Gorky, Maxim -- Guillen, Nicolas -- Harlem Renaissance -- Havel, Vaclav -- Heinlein, Robert -- Hellman, Lillian -- Hemingway, Ernest -- Hernandez, Amado V. -- Hernandez, Miguel -- Himes, Chester -- Holocaust literature -- Hughes, Langston -- Huxley, Aldous -- Indigenismo -- International literature -- Irish literature -- Isherwood, Christopher -- Italian literature -- James, C.L.R. -- Jelinek, Elfriede -- Jewish American literature -- John Reed Clubs -- Jones, Lewis -- Joyce, James -- Kataev, Valentin Petrovich -- Kipling, Rudyard -- Kis, Danilo -- Koestler, Arthur -- Kollontai, Alexandra -- Krleza, Miroslav -- Kundera, Milan -- La Guma, Alex -- Lamming, George -- Latin American literature -- Latina/o literature -- Le Guin, Ursula K. -- Lessing, Doris -- LeSueur, Meridel -- London, Jack -- Lorde, Audre -- Lu Xun -- Lumpkin, Grace -- Magical realism -- Mailer, Norman -- Malraux, Andre -- Mandel'shtam, Osip -- Mann, Thomas -- Mariategui, Jose Carlos -- Mayakovsky, Vladimir -- McKay, Claude -- Mieville, China -- Milosz, Czeslaw -- Mo Yan -- Modernism -- Momaday, N. Scott -- Morrison, Toni -- Muller, Heiner -- Muller, Herta -- Nabokov, Vladimir -- Naipaul, V.S. -- Native American literature -- Neruda, Pablo -- New masses -- Nexo, Martin Andersen -- Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- O'Casey, Sean -- Odets, Clifford -- Olsen, Tillie -- Orwell, George -- Ostrovsky, Nikolai -- Owen, Wilfred -- Platonov, Andrei -- Popular front -- Postcolonial literature -- Postmodernism -- Pound, Ezra -- Prison literature -- Proletarian fiction, American -- Pullman, Philip -- Revueltas, Jose -- Robinson, Kim Stanley -- Rolland, Romain -- Rushdie, Salman -- Russ, Joanna -- Russian Revolution -- Sandburg, Carl -- Sartre, Jean-Paul -- Sassoon, Siegfried -- Schuyler, George -- Science fiction -- Sembene, Ousmane -- Senghor, Leopold Sedar -- Shaw, George Bernard -- Sholokhov, Mikhail -- Silko, Leslie Marmon -- Silone, Ignazio -- Sinclair, Upton -- Smedley, Agnes -- Socialist realism (Soviet) -- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr -- South African literature -- Spanish Civil War -- Spanish literature -- Steinbeck, John -- Testimonio -- Tolstoy, Alexei -- Traven, B. -- Tressell, Robert -- Tsvetaeva, Marina -- Utopian fiction -- Vargas Llosa, Mario -- Vizenor, Gerald -- Voinovich, Vladimir -- Wells, H.G. -- West, Nathanael -- West, Rebecca -- Wiesel, Elie -- Williams, William Carlos -- Woolf, Virginia -- Wright, Richard -- Yeats, William Butler -- Yezierska, Anzia -- Zamyatin, Evgeny Summary "Focusing on the intersection of literature and politics since the beginning of the 20th century, this book examines authors, historical figures, major literary and political works, national literatures, and literary movements to reveal the intrinsic links between literature and history"-- Provided by publisher "This encyclopedia brings together a wide variety of information on the relationship between literature and politics in a conveniently accessible encyclopedia format"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print record version Subject Politics and literature -- Encyclopedias Literary studies: general. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. Politics and literature Genre/Form encyclopedias. Encyclopedias Encyclopedias. Encyclopédies. Form Electronic book Author Booker, M. Keith, editor. ISBN 9781610699365 161069936X

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