Radical Representations: Politics and Form in U. S. Proletarian Fiction, 1929-1941 FROM THE PUBLISHER
In this revisionary study, the author challenges prevalent myths about left-wing culture in the Depression-ear United States. Focusing on little-known archival material and a broad range of proletarian novels, the author recaptures an important literature and rewrites a segment of American cultural history long obscured and distorted by the anit-Communist bias of contemporaries and subsequent critics.
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Using the term "U.S. proletarian fiction" to refer to "novels written in the ambience of the Communist-led cultural movements that arose and developed in the United States in the context of the Great Depression," Foley (English, Rutgers U.) both rescues proletarian literature from undeserved neglect and also subjects it to a politically rigorous and historically informed critique. Her principal interest is not in detailed readings of individual texts, but in the larger claims that can be made about politics and representational strategy in proletarian fiction. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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