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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Barbara FoleyPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.40cm , Height: 4.00cm , Length: 21.50cm Weight: 0.907kg ISBN: 9780822313618ISBN 10: 0822313618 Pages: 484 Publication Date: 23 September 1993 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. 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 447Reviews&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 [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 Foley 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 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 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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