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Author:

Hennessy, Rosemary, author.

Title:

In the company of radical women writers / Rosemary Hennessy.

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

304 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm

Subject:

Women authors, American--Political and social views.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Communism and literature--United States--History--20th century.
Literature and society--United States--History--20th century.
Radicalism in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Life-making essentials, life-writing inventions -- Labor. Black and red -- Centering domestic workers: the Harlem-based politics of Marvel Cooke, Louise Thompson Patterson, Claudia Jones, and Alice Childress -- Land. The ground we tread -- Unsettling the grassroots: the intimate distance of whiteness in Josephine Herbst -- The radical ecology of Meridel Le Sueur -- Love. Particles of intense life -- Shadowing the erotics of race work in Muriel Rukeyser.

Summary:

"In the Company of Radical Women Writers rediscovers the political commitments and passionate advocacy of seven writers who as young women turned to communism during the Great Depression. Over decades of national crisis, they spoke to issues of labor, land, and love in ways that provide thought-provoking guidance and bracing inspiration in the ongoing fight for justice"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1517914892
9781517914899
1517914906
9781517914905

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1347696744

LCCN:

2022053779

Locations:

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

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)