Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-120) and index.
Contents:
Proletarian literature & dialectical theory -- Materialist dialectics in Tillie Olsen's early work -- Tell me a riddle & the dialectics of everyday life -- "Requa I" : the power of the negative -- Afterword: "The word made flesh": dialectical materialism as a living philosophy
Summary:
"This study historicizes Tillie Olsen's fiction in the context of the Depression-era proletarian literary movement in the United States and its philosophy of dialectical materialism. It argues that dialectical materialism informs both the form and content of her fiction"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Innovation and activism in American women's writing
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