Radical representations : politics and form in U.S. proletarian fiction, 1929-1941 /

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In this revisionary study, Barbara Foley challenges prevalent myths about left-wing culture in the Depression-era U.S. Focusing on a broad range of proletarian novels and little-known archival material, the author recaptures an important literature and rewrites a segment of American cultural history...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Foley, Barbara, 1948- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 1993.
Series:Post-contemporary interventions.
Subjects:
Andrae, A.
University of South Alabama
1900-1999
Geschichte 1929-1941.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Politics and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Working class writings, American > History and criticism.
Political fiction, American > History and criticism.
Working class > United States > Intellectual life.
Working class in literature.
Social problems in literature.
Proletariat in literature.
Radicalism in literature.
Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Politique et littérature > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Écrits d'ouvriers américains > Histoire et critique.
Politique-fiction américaine > Histoire et critique.
Travailleurs > États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle.
Travailleurs dans la littérature.
Problèmes sociaux dans la littérature.
Prolétariat dans la littérature.
Radicalisme dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American fiction
Political fiction, American
Politics and literature
Proletariat in literature
Radicalism in literature
Social problems in literature
Working class in literature
Working class > Intellectual life
Working class writings, American
Arbeiterroman
Literatur
Radikalismus
Arbeiter > Motiv
Roman
Fictie.
Engels.
Communisme.
prolétariat > roman américain (Etats-Unis) > 1929 > 1941.
United States
USA
English fiction > Special subjects > Politics
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The legacy of anti-communism
  • Influences on American proletarian literature
  • Defining proletarian literature
  • Art or propaganda?
  • Race, class, and the "Negro question"
  • Women and the left in the 1930s
  • Realism and didacticism in proletarian fiction
  • The proletarian fictional autobiography
  • The proletarian bildungsroman
  • The proletarian social novel
  • The collective novel.

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