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 threate...
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Silence, Acquiescence and Dread; C.A.Culleton & K.Leick Ghostreaders and Diaspora-Writers: Four Theses on the FBI and African-American Modernism; W.J.Maxwell Rais...
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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...