Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Communists, writers, and other outsiders
  • The ragged proletariat: itineraries for a transient concept
  • Richard Wright and the lumpenproletarian desire for revolution
  • From Oklahoma City to Tuskegee, from Harlem to Dayton: the sites, levels, and travels of Ralph Ellison's Marxism
  • Prostitutes, delinquents, and folk heroes: Margaret Walker's lumpenproletariat
  • Conclusion: afterlives of the Depression lumpenproletariat.