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Author:

Mills, Nathaniel, 1982- author.

Title:

Ragged revolutionaries : the lumpenproletariat and African American Marxism in Depression-era literature / Nathaniel Mills.

Publisher:

University of Massachusetts Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xii, 208 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Communism and literature--United States--History--20th century.
Socialism and literature--United States--History--20th century.
Marginality, Social, in literature.
American literature.
American literature--African American authors.
Communism and literature.
Marginality, Social, in literature.
Socialism and literature.
United States.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-198) and index. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

Summary:

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

ISBN:

1625342780
9781625342782
1625342799
9781625342799

OCLC:

(OCoLC)966609405

LCCN:

2016059943

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)