Taking his title from Richard Wright's poem "The FB Eye Blues," Maxwell details how the FBI threatened the international travels of African American writers and prepared to jail dozens of them in times of national emergency. All the same, he shows that the Bureau's paranoid style could prompt insightful criticism from Hoover's ghostreaders and creative replies from their literary targets. For authors such as Claude McKay, James Baldwin, and Sonia Sanchez, the suspicion that government spy-critics tracked their every word inspired rewarding stylistic experiments as well as disabling self-censorship.
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Titolo: F.B. Eyes – How J. Edgar Hoover`s Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature
Autore:
Maxwell William J
Editore: Princeton University Press
Data di Pubblicazione: 2015
Pagine: 367
Formato: Copertina rigida
ISBN: 9780691130200