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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