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Communion of Radicals - The Literary Christian Left in Twentieth-Century America (Hardcover)
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Communion of Radicals - The Literary Christian Left in Twentieth-Century America (Hardcover)
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Popular perceptions of American writers as either godless radicals
or God-fearing reactionaries overlook a vital tradition of
Christian leftist thought and creative work. In Communion of
Radicals, Jonathan McGregor offers the first literary history of
theologically conservative writers who embraced political
radicalism, as their reverence for tradition impelled them to work
for social justice. Challenging recent accounts that examine
twentieth-century American literature against the backdrop of the
rising Religious Right, Communion of Radicals uncovers a different
literary lineage in which allegiance to religious tradition
fostered dedication to a more just future. From the Gilded Age to
the Great Depression to the civil rights movement, traditional
faith empowered the rebellious writing of socialists, anarchists,
and Catholic personalists such as Vida Scudder, Dorothy Day, Claude
McKay, F. O. Matthiessen, and W. H. Auden. By recovering their
strain of traditioned radicalism, McGregor shows how strong faith
in the past can fuel the struggle for an equitable future. As
Christian socialists, Scudder and Ralph Adams Cram envisioned their
movement for beloved community as a modern version of medieval
monasticism. Day and the Catholic Workers followed the
fourteenth-century example of St. Francis when they lived and wrote
among the disaffected souls on the Bowery during the Great
Depression. Tennessee's Fellowship of Southern Churchmen argued for
a socialist and antiracist understanding of the notion of "the
South and the Agrarian tradition" popularized by James McBride
Dabbs, Walker Percy, and Wendell Berry. Agrarian roots flowered
into creative expressions encompassing the queer and Black
medievalist poetry of Auden and McKay, respectively; Matthiessen's
Catholic socialist interpretation of the American Renaissance; and
the genteel anarchism of Percy's southern comic novels. Imaginative
writing enabled these Christian leftists to commune with the past
and with each other, driving their radical efforts in the present.
Communion of Radicals chronicles a literary Christian left that
unites deeply traditional faith with radicalism, and offers a
usable past that disrupts perceived alignments of religion and
politics.
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