Ragged Revolutionaries The Lumpenproletariat and African American Marxism in Depression-Era Literature / Nathaniel Mills.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mills, Nathaniel, 1982- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marginality, Social, in literature.

Socialism and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Socialism and literature.

Communism and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Communism and literature.

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

American literature.

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages cm)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2017.

Summary:

In Marxism, the concept of the lumpenproletariat refers to the masses in rags, outsiders on the edge of society, drifters and criminals, of little or no use politically.But in Ragged Revolutionaries , Nathaniel Mills argues that the lumpenproletariat was central to an overlooked yet vibrant mode of African American Marxism formulated during.

Contents:

Introduction: Communists, writers, and other outsiders

The ragged proletariat: itineraries for a transient concept

Richard Wright and the lumpenproletarian desire for revolution

From Oklahoma City to Tuskegee, from Harlem to Dayton: the sites, levels, and travels of Ralph Ellison's Marxism

Prostitutes, delinquents, and folk heroes: Margaret Walker's lumpenproletariat

Conclusion: afterlives of the Depression lumpenproletariat.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781613765128

1613765126

OCLC:

1007992746