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Critical Approaches to American Working-Class Literature

Critical Approaches to American Working-Class Literature

Tokarczyk, Michelle

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature, Book 20

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0415885469
ISBN13: 9780415885461
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 25 2011
Pages: 266
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

This book is one of the first collections on a neglected field in American literature: that written by and about the working-class. Examining literature from the 1850s to the present, contributors use a wide variety of critical approaches, expanding readers' understanding of the critical lenses that can be applied to working-class literature. Drawing upon theories of media studies, postcolonial studies, cultural geography, and masculinity studies, the essays consider slave narratives, contemporary poetry and fiction, Depression-era newspaper plays, and ethnic American literature. Depicting the ways that working-class writers render the lives, the volume explores the question of what difference class makes, and how it intersects with gender, race, ethnicity, and geographical location.

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