caa a22 4500 388048301 CHVBK 20180307125044.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199810 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0361233300006402 doi S0361233300006402 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0361233300006402 Wixson Douglas "Black Writers and White!”: Jack Conroy, Arna Bontemps, and Interracial Collaboration in the 1930s [Elektronische Daten] [Douglas Wixson] The task of cultural recovery, George Hutchinson writes, begins with "those moments when places where the intertwined discourses of race, culture, and nation were exposed to questioning, to skepticism, to transformation, however small and localized, and when possibilities for coalitions of cultural reformers were envisioned and exploited” (Harlem, 26). The historical record has been muddied by shifting political currents and fragmented by instances of deliberate neglect over time, yet scholars have recently begun to reconstruct the complicated story of interracial cooperation between the two world wars. More effort, however, should be devoted to discovering connections and parallels between the worlds of work and art — of labor and literature — as part of this story. One reward of such effort, I suggest, will be to reveal the hitherto hidden "lines of continuity and disruption” that James A. Miller sees connecting "the African-American literary production of the 1920s and its production in the 1930s” (87-88). That those lines often intersected lines traced by nonblack literary production and working-class history reinforces Hutchinson's point that it is necessary to rethink "American cultural history from a position of interracial marginality, a position that sees ‘white' and ‘black' American cultures as intimately, mutually constitutive” (Harlem, 3). Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Prospects Cambridge University Press 23(1998-10), 401-430 0361-2333 23<401 1998 23 PTS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0361233300006402 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0361233300006402 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Wixson Douglas NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Prospects Cambridge University Press 23(1998-10), 401-430 0361-2333 23<401 1998 23 PTS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge