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American Writers Congress
archival research methods
Author_Nora Ruth Roberts
Category=DSBH
Cold War cultural studies
Corn Village
CP Press
CPUSA
CPUSA Leadership
Deborah Rosenfelt
Elshtain's Argument
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Eugene Victor Debs
Farm Sequence
feminist literary criticism
Follow
gold
herbst
Holding
Horkheimer's Thesis
josephine
Le Sueur
Liberal Women's Movement
Loose Cannon
Marxist theory analysis
masses
meridel
Meridel Le Sueur
mike
Mike Gold
new
olsen
Partisan Review
Proletarian Realism
Radical Women Writers
radical women writers in 1930s America
socialist feminism
sueur
tillie
Timeless
twentieth century American literature
Violate
West End Press
Wood's Tone
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138868939
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 27 Feb 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Combining biography, history, and literary theory, this work looks at three of the most significant women writers to emerge from American radicalism of the 1930s. Le Sueur, Olsen, and Herbst were influenced by the Communist movement of the time, but each also forged an independent vision of feminist socialist literary milieu. Drawing on Marxist and post-Marxist theory, and addressing the challenge of such new feminist theorists as Jean Bethke Elshtain, Roberts takes a theoretical approach that encompasses the social vision and feminist practice of the writers and places them in their historical, cultural, and social contexts. The study covers their lives from the turn of the century to the 1970s, with an emphasis on the 1930s; examines their views of the Cold War; links the three to the Progressive tradition; and analyzes their key literary works. Resources for analysis include historical and contemporary theory; excerpts from the radical press of the 1920s and 1930s; and primary materials from the writers themselves, including journals, notes, and unpublished archival materials.
