1st Edition
Twentieth-Century Americanism Identity and Ideology in Depression-Era Leftist Literature
By Andrew Yerkes
Copyright 2005
178 Pages
65 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
180 Pages
65 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
178 Pages
65 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The main purpose of the book is to expand the scope of revisionary studies of the thirties by analyzing novels using recent innovations in critical theory. The book adds to the research of Barbara Foley, Michael Denning, Alan Wald, and others who have challenged Cold-War-era accounts of the decade's socialist and communist culture. The book explores leftist literature from the thirties as balanced... Read more
Introduction Revolutionary Symbolism: American Depression-Era Leftist Literature Chapter One Identity and Ideology in Robert Cantwell's The Land of Plenty Chapter Two Disguised Theology of the Master-Wizard:Critical and Scientific Marxism in Depression-Era Literary CriticismChapter ThreeI was not a character in a novel: Fictionalizing the Self in Agnes Smedley's Daughter of EarthChapter Four Standardized:Stereotypes of the Depression in the Thirties Novels of West and SteinbeckChapter Five The Artist's Dialectic: Race Authenticity in the Thirties Novels of Richard WrightConclusion The Power of Negative Thinking
Biography
Andrew Yerkes is an adjunct professor of English at the University of St. Thomas. He has taught and researched the recurrence of historiographic patterns of apocalypse and millennium in American fiction, and he published on this topic in Routledge's Encyclopedia of Millennialism and Millennial Movements (2002).
