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Author:

Foley, Barbara, 1948-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Duke University Press,

Copyright Date:

1993

Description:

xiii, 459 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

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.
Politics--Special subjects--Politics
United States
Fictie.
Engels.
Communisme.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Series:

Post-contemporary interventions

ISBN:

9780822313946 (pbk.)
0822313944 (pbk.)
9780822313618 (cl.)
0822313618 (cl.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)27726014

LCCN:

93018687

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)