Modernism on File: Writers, Artists, and the FBI, 1920-1950 - Softcover

 
9781349370764: Modernism on File: Writers, Artists, and the FBI, 1920-1950
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1349370762 ISBN 13: 9781349370764
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author


CLAIRE A. CULLETON is Professor of Modern British and Irish literature at Kent State University, USA.
KAREN LEICK is Assistant Professor of English at The Ohio State University at Lima, USA.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1349370762
ISBN 13 
9781349370764
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
276
Editor
Culleton C.

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