Critical Approaches to American Working-Class Literature (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Tokarczyk, Michelle

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Produktbeschreibung

Critical Approaches to American Working-Class Literature is the first anthology to focus on literary criticism of working-class American literature. The literature examined is from the 1850s to the present and includes work in several genres. Several prominent scholars have contributed, and emerging scholars are represented as well.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136697425
• Artikelnr.: 38405015

Autorenporträt

Michelle M. Tokarczyk is a professor of English at Goucher College with publications in working-class studies and contemporary literature. Publications include Class Definitions: On the Lives and Writings of Maxine Hong Kingston, Sandra Cisneros, and Dorothy Allison, the co-edited Working-Class Women in the Academy, and The House I'm Running From: Poems .

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part I: The Realities of Working-Class Life 1. Between the
Outhouse and the Garbage Dump: Locating Collapse in Depression Literature.
Paula Rabinowitz 2. Work is a War or, All Their Lives They Dug Their
Graves. Renny Christopher 3. Respectability, Refinement, and the
Underclass: Uncle Tom's Cabin and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
Sylvia J. Cook Part II: Pedagogy and Promises 4. Bridges, Not Ladders:
Working-Class Women Poets on Education, Class Consciousness, and the
Promise of Upward Mobility. Karen Kovacik 5. Charlotte Simmons as
Working-Class Heroine in Tom Wolfe's I am Charlotte Simmons. David
McCracken 6. [Un]teaching the Anthology: Pedagogy vs Canon in Working-Class
Literature. Nicholas Coles Part III: The Experience of Poverty 7. Agency
Not Alligators: Poor Women and Outside Assistance in Three Short Stories.
Michelle M. Tokarczyk 8. Homeless in Seattle: Class Violence in Sherman
Alexie's Indian Killer. Michele Fazio 9. Cultural Geography and Local
Economies: The Lesson from Egypt, Maine. Phoebe S.Jackson Part IV:
Reconsidering Class, Gender, and Nation 10. A Body of Work: Imperial Labor
and the Writing of American Manhood in London's The Sea-Wolf. Matthew
Brophy 11. The Man in the Family": Staging Gender in Waiting for Lefty and
American Social Protest Theatre. Maria F. Brandt 12. Henry Roth's
Re-Imagination of Class Consciousness from Call it Sleep to the Mercy of a
Rude Stream Novels: Class Consciousness, Nationalist Politics, and
Working-Class Studies in the Age of Cosmopolitanism. Tim Libretti