Anthony Dawahare

Tillie Olsen and the Dialectical Philosophy of Proletarian Literature (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498578745
• Artikelnr.: 56831009

Autorenporträt

For the last 30 years, Anthony Dawahare's teachings and scholarship have centered on modern U.S. literatures of social protest. Relevant scholarship includes Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature between the Wars: A New Pandora's Box (University Press of Mississippi 2003), Tillie Olsen and the Dialectical Philosophy of Proletarian Literature (Lexington 2018), and essays/chapters on multiethnic working-class literatures published by Cambridge, Bloomsbury, Routledge, South Central Review, MELUS, African American Review, and Twentieth-Century Literature, Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts, etc.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Proletarian Literature & Dialectical Theory Chapter 2:
Materialist Dialectics in Tillie Olsen's Early Work Chapter 3: Tell Me a
Riddle & the Dialectics of Everyday Life Chapter 4: "Requa I": The Power of
the Negative Afterword: "The Word Made Flesh": Dialectical Materialism as a
Living Philosophy