Poets of the Non-Existent City: Los Angeles in the McCarthy Era (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series) - Hardcover

Novak, Estelle Gershgoren

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826329519 ISBN 13: 9780826329516

Verlag: University of New Mexico Press, 2003

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Though unacknowledged by the larger literary world, which looked down on Southern California as a cultural desert, poetry flourished in the Los Angeles of the 1950s. But the very period during which the arts were burgeoning was shadowed by the work of the regional committees that brought the anti-Communist investigations of Senator Joseph McCarthy to Hollywood. Two Los Angeles literary journals, 'The California Quarterly' and 'Coastlines', made a strong stand against McCarthyism. The two published many of the same writers and artists and shared the same liberal politics. Combined, they represent almost thirteen years of poetry and graphic arts in Los Angeles. This book collects for the first time the poems, artwork, and commentary of these journals, long buried in literary archives. As this collection vividly demonstrates, the poets and artists were not intimidated by pressure to refrain from social and political commentary or to write about the uncontroversial.

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Collects for the first time the poems, artwork, and commentary of two outstanding Los Angeles literary journals during the 1950s McCarthy years.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of New Mexico Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0826329519
• ISBN 13: 9780826329516
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 274
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