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Tillie Olsen and the Dialectical Philosophy of Proletarian Literature

Tillie Olsen and the Dialectical Philosophy of Proletarian Literature

Dawahare, Anthony

Paperback

Series: Innovation and Activism in American Women's Writing

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1498578756
ISBN13: 9781498578752
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Aug 11 2020
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Contrary to previous studies of Tillie Olsen's writing, Tillie Olsen and the Dialectical Philosophy of Proletarian Literature analyzes the impact of one of the most important philosophies of the last century, dialectical materialism, on the form and content of Olsen's fiction. By revealing the unconceptualized dialectics of Olsen's work and its appreciation by scholars and casual readers, this study achieves a dialectical synthesis that incorporates and extends the insights of and about Olsen in terms of dialectical materialism. By foregrounding Olsen's dialectical approach, it explains and largely resolves apparent contradictions between her Marxism and feminism; her depictions of class, race, and gender; the literature of her earlier and later periods; and her use of realist and modernist literary forms and techniques. Consequently, this project makes a case for the importance of Olsen's Marxist education during the Red Decade of the 1930s and within the U.S. proletarian literary movement.

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