Trinity of Passion

by Wald, Alan M.

• ISBN13: 9780807830758
• ISBN10: 0807830755
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-02-26
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

The second of three volumes by Wald that track the political and personal lives of several generations of U.S. left-wing writers, this volume carries forward the chronicle launched in Exiles from a Future Time. In this volume Wald delves into literary, emotional, and ideological trajectories of radical cultural workers in the era when the International Brigades fought in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and the United States battled in World War II (1941-45). Confronting questions about Jewish masculinity, racism at the core of liberal democracy, the corrosion of utopian dreams, and the thorny interaction between antifascism and Communism, Wald re-creates the intellectual and cultural landscape of a remarkable era.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xiii
Introduction: The Strange Career of Len Zinberg	p. 1
Tough Jews in the Spanish Civil War	p. 16
Unmanly Doubles	p. 16
Jews with Guns	p. 22
Whose Revolution?	p. 31
Golems and Gimpels on the Barricades	p. 42
The Agony of the African American Left	p. 46
"The War Is Everywhere We Find It"	p. 46
Black Bolshevik from Georgia	p. 50
Youngblood versus Trueblood	p. 56
A Double Perspective on Double V	p. 62
The Peculiarities of the Germans	p. 74
"A Jew Must Learn to Fight"	p. 74
Willing Executioners?	p. 81
"An Eye for an Eye"	p. 87
The Natural	p. 93
The Blood and the Stain	p. 102
A Rage in Harlem	p. 108
The Black Crusaders	p. 108
"Talent as a Weapon"	p. 115
Lutie Johnson's War	p. 122
"Hitler's Uprisings in America"	p. 128
Fighting the Fifth Column	p. 137
Disappearing Acts	p. 146
Henry Roth's Landscape of Guilt	p. 146
The Ordeal of Lauren Gilfillan	p. 154
Of Genders and Genres	p. 158
The Wound and the Bow	p. 161
An Ordinary Life	p. 166
From New Masses to Mass Market	p. 170
The Conversion of the Jews	p. 176
The Lost World	p. 176
Between Insularity and Internationalism	p. 182
The Mirror of Race	p. 186
Fascinating Fascism	p. 194
From Emily Dickinson to Emma Lazarus	p. 201
Arthur Miller's Missing Chapter	p. 210
Miller the Marxist	p. 210
Socialism Was Reason	p. 215
Becoming Matt Wayne	p. 221
Innocence Was Shattered	p. 228
Conclusion: The Fates of Antifascism	p. 236
Three Lives	p. 236
The Wounded Heart	p. 242
Changeling	p. 250
Notes	p. 261
Acknowledgments and Sources	p. 303
Index	p. 307
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