Laura Hapke

Labor's Text

The Worker in American Fiction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume charts how the worker has been portrayed and sometimes misrepresented in American fiction. It examines novelistic treatment of """"men's"""", """"women's"""", """"white"""" and """"racialized"""" work that both mirror and reconfigure breadwinning in the United States.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 252mm x 177mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 844g
• ISBN-13: 9780813528809
• ISBN-10: 0813528801
• Artikelnr.: 21729073

Autorenporträt

Laura Hapke is a professor of English at Pace University. The winner of two Choice magazine Outstanding Academic Book awards, she is the author of Daughters of the Great Depression: Women, Work, and Fiction in the American 1930s and other books on labor fiction and working-class studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction : Whose plot is it anyway?
1. Workers in the wings : antebellum fictions
2. I'm looking through you : working men from status quo to knights of
labor fiction
3. Labor's ladies : work fiction and true women from antebellum Lowell
through the Gilded Age
4. Taking to their streets : ethnic cultures and labor texts in the
sociological 1890s
5. Beastmen and labor experts : fiction and the problem of authority from
1900 to 1917
6. Facing the unwomanly : sweatshop and sex shop in progressive era labor
fiction
7. The hungary eye : desire and disaffection in 1920s labor fiction
8. From Black folk to working class : African American labor fiction
between the World Wars
9. Heroic at last : Depression era fiction
10. What war your crime? : representing labor in the HUAC era
11. The usable past : jobs, myths, and three racial-ethnic literatures of
the Civil Rights era
12. Working-class twilight : White labor texts of the Civil Rights and
Vietnam decades
Conclusion : Everything old is new again : working through class in the
literary 1990s