The Heart of Revolution: The Radical Life and Novels of Olive Dargan - Couverture rigide

Ackerman, Kathy Cantley

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1572332433 ISBN 13 : 9781572332430

Editeur : University of Tennessee Press, 2004

Synopsis

The Heart of Revolution
The Radical Life and Novels of Olive Dargan

Kathy Cantley Ackerman

Despite the timeless themes of Olive Tilford Dargan&;s work and the acclaim she earned with her novels Call Home the Heart (1932) and A Stone Came Rolling (1935), the author, who published her best-known works under the pseudonym Fielding Burke, has been largely forgotten by the American literary establishment. In this first book-length study of Dargan&;s life and work, Kathy Cantley Ackerman poses these questions: Why did Dargan&;s proletarian and feminist writings fall out of public favor when the literary climate changed in the 1940s, and what are the issues raised in and by her work that today&;s readers should reconsider?

The Heart of Revolution combines biography and history with a critical reading of Dargan&;s work. Ackerman pays close attention to the proletarian, feminist, and racial issues in the novels; she then examines the ways these issues intersect in the southern Appalachian and Piedmont regions. Dargan&;s aesthetic, artiated in her depiction of the southern textile mill strikes of 1929 and the early 1930s, defies the party line of the period that privileged the struggle of white working men over the concerns of women and minorities. Unlike her male&;and many of her female&;counterparts in the proletarian movement, Dargan enions a world in which romantic love can coexist with the fight for socioeconomic revolution, a world in which the actit does not have to surrender her individuality. Through strong female characters, she reconstructs the paternalistic, capitalistic marriage-and-mother myth, replacing it with a model based on egalitarian principles&;an ideology that has only gained relevance over time.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Tennessee Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1572332433
• ISBN 13: 9781572332430
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 232
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• Personne responsable: non disponible