History of American Working-Class Literature (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Coles, Nicholas

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A History of American Working-Class Literature sheds light not only on the lived experience of class but the enormously varied creativity of working-class people throughout the history of what is now the United States. By charting a chronology of working-class experience, as the conditions of work have changed over time, this volume shows how the practice of organizing, economic competition, place, and time shape opportunity and desire. The subjects range from transportation narratives and slave songs to the literature of deindustrialization and globalization. Among the literary forms discussed are memoir, journalism, film, drama, poetry, speeches, fiction, and song. Essays focus on plantation, prison, factory, and farm, as well as on labor unions, workers' theaters, and innovative publishing ventures. Chapters spotlight the intersections of class with race, gender, and place. The variety, depth, and many provocations of this History are certain to enrich the study and teaching of American literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108506045
• Artikelnr.: 49046375

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Nicholas Coles and Paul Lauter; 1. Transportation narratives:
servants, convicts, and the literature of colonization in British America
Matthew Pethers; 2. Why work? Early American theories and practices Paul
Lauter; 3. Labor and literary culture in and beyond bondage: early
African-American expressive culture John Ernest; 4. Lowell mill girls:
women's work and writing in the early nineteenth century Christopher Hager;
5. 'Wet paper between us': Whitman and the transformations of labor Peter
Riley; 6. Millions and mills: class and the ante-bellum novel Amy Schrager
Lang; 7. 'We are not slaves': the shadow of slavery in nineteenth-century
poetry and song John Marsh; 8. Utopian labors: work in nineteenth- and
twentieth-century utopian and dystopian fiction James Catano; 9. Towards a
more perfect union: marriage plots in socialist fiction, 1901-17 Alicia
Williamson; 10. What workers were reading, 1830-1930 Jan Goggans; 11.
Getting the word out: institutions and forms of publication Mark Noonan;
12. Genre and form in working-class life writing, from Haymarket to the New
Deal Michael Collins; 13. Working the fields: love and labor in farm
fiction from 1890 to the Dust Bowl Nicholas Coles; 14. Proletarian
literature: fiction and the predicaments of class culture Lawrence Hanley;
15. Go left young women: proletarian women writers Michelle Tokarczyk; 16.
'I have seen black hands': a twentieth-century African American tradition
Bill Mullen; 17. The American labor song tradition Richard Flacks; 18.
Prison literature from the early Republic to Attica Joe Lockard; 19. The
workers' theatre of the twentieth century Amy Brady; 20. The evolution of
the poetry of work: from the Red Decade to the end of the Cold War Cary
Nelson; 21. The labor plot: one hundred years of class struggle and the
silver screen Kathleen Newman; 22. Globalization, migration, and
contemporary working-class literature Joseph Entin; 23. Narrating economic
restructuring: working-class literature after deindustrialization Sherry
Lee Linkon; 24. A turn of the sphere: the place of class in intersectional
analysis Sara Appel.