Critical approaches to American working-class literature / edited by Michelle M. Tokarczyk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tokarczyk, Michelle M., 1953-

Series:

Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 20.

Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Working class writings, American--History and criticism.

Working class writings, American.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Working class in literature.

Social classes in literature.

Working class--United States--Intellectual life.

Working class.

Intellectual life.

United States.

Physical Description:

xiv, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2011.

Contents:

Pt. I. The realities of working-class life. "Between the outhouse and the garbage dump" : locating collapse in depression literature / Paula Rabinowitz

Work is a war, or all their lives they dug their graves / Renny Christopher

Respectability, refinement, and the underclass : Uncle Tom's cabin and Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Sylvia J. Cook

pt. II. Pedagogy and promises. Bridges, not ladders : working-class women poets on education, class consciousness, and the promise of upward mobility / Karen Kovacik

Charlotte Simmons as working-class heroine in Tom Wolfe's I am Charlotte Simmons / David McCracken

[Un]teaching the anthology : pedagogy versus canon in working-class literature / Nicholas Coles

pt. III. The experience of poverty. Agency not alligators : poor women and outside assistance in three short stories / Michelle M. Tokarczyk

Homeless in Seattle : class violence in Sherman Alexie's Indian killer / Michele Fazio

Cultural geography and local economies : the lesson from Egypt, Maine / Phoebe S. Jackson

pt. IV. Reconsidering class, gender, and nation. A body of work : imperial labor and the writing of American manhood in London's The sea-wolf / Matthew Brophy

"The man in the family" : staging gender in Waiting for Lefty and American social protest theatre / Maria F. Brandt

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415885461

0415885469

OCLC:

617637770