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Recent papers in Federal Writers Project
For the first time 10 writings by Richard Wright produced while on the Illinois Writers' Project were published in the Winter 2009 issue of Southern Quarterly celebrating the centenary of the novelist. An introduction by Brian Dolinar... more
An essay on African American writers on the Illinois Writers' Project who were also members of or close to the Communist Party. Published in American Communist History (April 2015).
Abstract: This dissertation, 'Community and Social Justice in New Deal-Era Urban Literature,' explores the intersection between urban literature and liberal debates over community from the 1920s to the 1950s. It... more