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Labor pains : New Deal fictions of race, work, and sex in the South /

"From the 1930s to the 1960s, the Popular Front produced a significant era in African American literary radicalism. While scholars have long associated the black radicalism of the Popular Front with the literary left and the working class, Christin Marie Taylor considers how black radicalism in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Taylor, Christin Marie, 1982- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2019]
Colección:Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Black folk work: New Deal era feeling and desire
  • Cultivating feeling: Black women's work and desire in George Wylie Henderson's Ollie Miss
  • Steel feeling: Black masculinity under pressure in William Attaway's Blood on the forge
  • Feeling in the light: race, fear, and desire in Eudora Welty's popular front fiction
  • Feeling rejected: national denial of Black working mothers in Sarah E. Wright's This child's gonna live
  • Conclusion. feeling shame: Black southern workers and popular culture.