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Radical Representations : Politics and Form in U.S. Proletarian Fiction, 1929-1941 /

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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Foley, Barbara, 1948- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham : Duke University Press, 1993.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.