Postwar anti-communist consensus marginalized radical American literary theorists
Evidence
After World War II, as the USA consolidated its position as the leading capitalist power in the world, so immense was the right-wing national consensus, so pathological the anti-communist phobia, that those lonely figures, such as Kenneth Burke, who continued to do serious radical work in literary and cultural theory were thoroughly marginalized. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 85
Categorization
- SHARE: Kenneth Burke’s marginalization during McCarthyism — a good story for someone interested in mid-century American criticism.
- XREF: connects to: Vienna Circle positivism out-competed Critical Theory in America due to philosophical congruence. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 243; Mid-forties American intellectuals first attacked mass culture from the radical left. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 652; Anti-Communist bias distorted English reception of Lukács and Sartre (+1 more)
Related
- Mid-forties American intellectuals first attacked mass culture from the radical left. (similarity 0.84)
- Anti-Communist bias distorted English reception of Lukács and Sartre (similarity 0.82)
- New Criticism’s rise and fall tracked McCarthy-era anti-communism (similarity 0.81)