Modernism on File

1. Introduction: Silence, Acquiescence, and Dread
Claire A. Culleton, Karen Leick

Part I. The FBI and Modern Writers

2. Ghostreaders and Diaspora-Writers: Four Theses on the FBI and African American Modernism
William J. Maxwell

3. Raising Muscovite Ducks and Government Suspicions: Henry Roth and the FBI
Steven G. Kellman

4. Telling Stories from Hemingway’s FBI File: Conspiracy, Paranoia, and Masculinity
Debra A. Moddelmog

5. Most Wanted: Claude McKay and the “Black Specter” of African American Poetry in the 1920s
Josh Gosciak

6. Madness, Paranoia, and Ezra Pound’s FBI File
Karen Leick

7. Investigative Savagery: Figuring Hoover in Richard Wright’s Savage Holiday
Andrew Strombeck

8. “Poetess Probed as Red”: Muriel Rukeyser and the FBI
Jeanne Perreault

Part II. The FBI and the Arts

9. An Archive of the (Political) Unconscious: Jean Renoir at the FBI
Christopher Faulkner

10. New Information from the FBI, CNDI LA-BB-1: The Surveillance of Bertolt Brecht’s Telephone in Los Angeles
Alexander Stephan

11. Sour Notes: Hanns Eisler and the FBI
James Wierzbicki

12. Communism, Perversion, and Other Crimes Against the State: The FBI Files of Klaus and Erika Mann
Andrea Weiss

13. Extorting Henry Holt & Co.: J. Edgar Hoover and the Publishing Industry
Claire A. Culleton

Keywords: Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature