Brooks E Hefner: 2 books

Upending conventional literary theory, Hefner argues American Modernism did not begin with the political left in the 1930s, but that writers were already experimenting with American language using cross-racial, cross ethnic, and cross-class vernacular in the popular writing of the 1920s.

This article reads Willard Huntington Wright’s work against his anxieties about cultural hierarchy and value, utilizing archival work in Wright’s papers at the University of Virginia and unearthing a previously unknown series of crime stories that he published under another pseudonym a decade...