Rethinking Social Realism: African American Art and Literature, 1930-1953 - Hardcover

Stacy I. Morgan

9780820325644: Rethinking Social Realism: African American Art and Literature, 1930-1953

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820325643 ISBN 13: 9780820325644

Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 2004

This study explores how and why African American writers and visual artists sustained an engagement with the themes and aesthetics of social realism into the early cold war era - far longer than a majority of their white counterparts.

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Review:

"By identifying the importance of social realism as a movement for black artists and their role in helping to shape and inform that movement, Morgan demands a reconsideration of this important period. He reminds us that these visual artists, novelists, and poets were consciously aware of their participation in a broad-based movement to engage questions of racial and class inequities. While many here are known for their individual achievements, Morgan reminds us that together they formed a community of activist-artists."

About the Author:

Stacy I. Morgan is an assistant professor of American studies at the University of Alabama.

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