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Alan M. Wald Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left. University of North Carolina Press, 432 pages, $19.95
Notwithstanding its presentation and publication by a leading academic press, this is a work of neither literary history nor criticism. Rather, it is a triumphalist manifesto of a tenured ideology--a peculiar variant of radical leftism somewhere between neoStalinism and something probably best described as post-Trotskyism.
Wald, a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, has assembled biographical sketches of a group of writers nearly all of whom remained loyal to the Communist Party, USA ...
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