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Overview"In this revisionary study, Barbara Foley challenges prevalent myths about left-wing culture in the Depression-era U.S. Focusing on a broad range of proletarian novels and little-known archival material, the author recaptures an important literature and rewrites a segment of American cultural history long obscured and distorted by the anti-Communist bias of contemporaries and critics. Josephine Herbst, William Attaway, Jack Conroy, Thomas Bell and Tillie Olsen, are among the radical writers whose work Foley reexamines. Her fresh approach to the U.S. radicals' debates over experimentalism, the relation of art to propaganda, and the nature of proletarian literature recasts the relation of writers to the organized left. Her grasp of the left's positions on the ""Negro question"" and the ""woman question"" enables a nuanced analysis of the relation of class to race and gender in the proletarian novel. Moreover, examining the articulation of political doctrine in different novelistic modes, Foley develops a model for discussing the interplay between politics and literary conventions and genres. Radical Representations recovers a literature of theoretical and artistic value meriting renewed attention form those interested in American literature, American studies, the U. S. left, and cultural studies generally." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Barbara FoleyPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.90cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 21.10cm Weight: 0.680kg ISBN: 9780822313946ISBN 10: 0822313944 Pages: 484 Publication Date: 23 September 1993 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface vii Part One 1. The Legacy of Anti-Communism 3 2. Influences on American Proletarian Literature 44 3. Defining Proletarian Litearture 86 4. Art or Propaganda? 129 5. Race, Class, and the Negro Question 170 6. Women and the Left in the 1930s 213 Part Two 7. Realism and Didacticism in Proletarian Fiction 249 8. The Proletarian Fictional Autobiography 284 9. The Proletarian Bildungsroman 321 10. The Proletarian Social Novel 362 11. The Collective Novel 398 Afterword 443 Index 447ReviewsFoley succeeds admirably in demonstrating that the proletarian novel is indeed worth reexamining from a variety of points of view as an essential way in which we may understand the American 1930s more accurately. This is a really important book in its field, a field wide enough to include not only literature, but history and politics. -Walter Rideout, University of Wisconsin, Madison [Foley] substantially refutes the received wisdom that writers within the Communist Party and its periphery produced a degraded, politically compromised body of work because they followed a formula dictated from the party leadership. I cannot imagine anyone interested in politics and literature not taking this book as required reading. It will also be of great interest to American Studies, Cultural Studies and historians and sociologists of culture. -Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Graduate Center &quot;[Foley] substantially refutes the received wisdom that writers within the Communist Party and its periphery produced a degraded, politically compromised body of work because they followed a formula dictated from the party leadership. I cannot imagine anyone interested in politics and literature not taking this book as required reading. It will also be of great interest to American Studies, Cultural Studies and historians and sociologists of culture.&quot;&mdash;Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Graduate Center Radical Representations breaks ground not only by offering new ways to read and categorize proletarian texts but also by calling into question what everybody thinks they know about the genre, its origins and motives. <br>--Lillian S. Robinson, The Nation Author InformationBarbara Foley is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University, Newark Campus. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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