Critical Approaches to American Working-Class Literature
Author | : Michelle Tokarczyk |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2012-03-29 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781136697418 |
ISBN-13 | : 1136697411 |
Rating | : 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Download or read book Critical Approaches to American Working-Class Literature written by Michelle Tokarczyk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.