AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE ABOUT THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN THE HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL CONTEXT

Abstract

The peculiarity of African-American literature about the Second World War in the historical and social context is studied in the article. The review of themes and issues of social nature either emerged or sharpened in the course of the Second World War in the U.S. society which served as a basis for the creative writing of African-American prose and poetry writers, such as John Oliver Killens, Lengston Hughes, Erskine Caldwell, Gwendolyn Brooks, Constans Nickols, Hazel Washington, as well as in the works of other U.S. writers: Lincoln Kirstein, Woody Guthry, Witter Bynner, James Gould Cozzens and Howard Nemerov. The problem-subject angle of African-American literature about the Second World War determines the peculiarity of the U.S. war literature.