In the Company of Radical Women Writers / Rosemary Hennessy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hennessy, Rosemary, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language maintenance.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2023]

Summary:

"In the Company of Radical Women Writers rediscovers the political commitments and passionate advocacy of seven writers who as young women turned to communism during the Great Depression. Over decades of national crisis, they spoke to issues of labor, land, and love in ways that provide thought-provoking guidance and bracing inspiration in the ongoing fight for justice"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface

Introduction: Life-Making Essentials, Life-Writing Inventions

Labor

Chapter 1: Black and Red

Chapter 2: Centering Domestic Workers: The Harlem-Based Politics of Marvel Cooke, Louise Thompson Patterson, Claudia Jones, and Alice Childress

Land

Chapter 3: The Ground We Tread

Chapter 4: Unsettling the Grass Roots: The Intimate Distance of Whiteness in Josephine Herbst

Chapter 5: The Radical Ecology of Meridel Le Sueur

Love

Chapter 6: Particles of Intense Life

Chapter 7: Shadowing the Erotics of Race Work in Muriel Rukeyser

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Hennessy, Rosemary In the Company of Radical Women Writers

ISBN:

1-4529-7006-8

1-4529-7005-X