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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Foley, Barbara
• Johnson, Linck
• Soto, Michael
• Gaul, Theresa Strouth
• Belasco, Susan

Titel

Proletarian Literature

Ist Teil von

• A Companion to American Literature, 2020, p.173-186

Ort / Verlag

Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Wiley Online Library All Obooks

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The proletarian novel is principally identified with the Marxist‐inflected literary radicalism of the Depression‐era United States. While focusing primarily on the class struggle, many of the approximately 100 instances of the genre address issues of race and gender. The proletarian novel can be analyzed in subcategories defined by subject matter – for example, strike novels, novels about individuals and groups coming to class consciousness – and by form – for example, fictional autobiographies, collective novels. In somewhat altered form, the proletarian novel continues as a class‐conscious, anti‐capitalist presence in current literary production.