Tillie Olsen and the Dialectical Philosophy of Proletarian Literature
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class
classism
communism
dialectical materialism
dialectics
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feminism
gender
karl marx
literary proletarian
literary representation
marxism
proletarian literature
proletariat
race
Red Decade
the 1930s
the Great Depression
Tillie Olsen
working class
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- ISBN 9781498578752
- Weight: 236g
- Dimensions: 154 x 223mm
- Publication Date: 11 Aug 2020
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Contrary to previous studies of Tillie Olsen’s writing, Tillie Olsen and the Dialectical Philosophy of Proletarian Literature analyzes the impact of one of the most important philosophies of the last century, dialectical materialism, on the form and content of Olsen’s fiction. By revealing the unconceptualized dialectics of Olsen’s work and its appreciation by scholars and casual readers, this study achieves a dialectical synthesis that incorporates and extends the insights of and about Olsen in terms of dialectical materialism. By foregrounding Olsen’s dialectical approach, it explains and largely resolves apparent contradictions between her Marxism and feminism; her depictions of class, race, and gender; the literature of her earlier and later periods; and her use of realist and modernist literary forms and techniques. Consequently, this project makes a case for the importance of Olsen’s Marxist education during the “Red Decade” of the 1930s and within the U.S. proletarian literary movement.
Anthony Dawahare is professor of English at California State University, Northridge.
