The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War - Hardcoverby Jesse McCarthy (Author) Addresses the political and aesthetic evolution of African American literature and its authors during the Cold War, an era McCarthy calls "the Blue Period." In the years after World War II, to be a black writer was to face a stark predicament. The contest between the Soviet Union and the United States was a global one an ideological battle that dominated almost every aspect of the cultural agenda. On the one hand was the