Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur - Couverture souple

Coiner, Constance

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0252066952 ISBN 13 : 9780252066955

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 1998

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Better Red is an interdisciplinary study addressing the complicated intersection of American feminism and the political left as refracted in Tillie Olsen's and Meridel Le Sueur's lives and literary texts. The first book-length study to explore these feminist writers' ties to the American Communist Party, it contributes to a reenvisioning of 1930s U.S. Communism as well as to efforts to promote working-class writing as a legitimate category of literary analysis. At once loyal members of the male-dominated Communist party and emerging feminists, Olsen and Le Sueur exhibit in their writing tendencies both toward and away from Party tenets and attitudes--at points subverting formalist as well as orthodox Marxist literary categories. By producing working-class discourse, Olsen and Le Sueur challenge the bourgeois assumptions--often masked as classless and universal--of much canonical literature; and by creating working-class women's writing, they problematize the patriarchal nature of the Left and the masculinist assumptions of much proletarian literature, anticipating the concerns of "second wave" feminists a generation later.

Revue de presse

Olsen and Le Sueur have not faltered in their determination to raise the voice of working class women. Nor have they ceased to encourage, work for, anticipate a just world. Better Red is a meticulous scrutiny of two exceedingly important creative and political lives. (Alice Walker)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252066952
• ISBN 13: 9780252066955
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible