Critical Approaches to American Working-Class Literature
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Overview
This book is one of the first collections on a neglected field in American literature: that written by and about the working-class. Examining literature from the 1850s to the present, contributors use a wide variety of critical approaches, expanding readers' understanding of the critical lenses that can be applied to working-class literature. Drawing upon theories of media studies, postcolonial studies, cultural geography, and masculinity studies, the essays consider slave narratives, contemporary poetry and fiction, Depression-era newspaper plays, and ethnic American literature. Depicting the ways that working-class writers render the lives, the volume explores the question of what difference class makes, and how it intersects with gender, race, ethnicity, and geographical location.
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- ISBN-13: 9780415885461
- ISBN-10: 0415885469
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish Date: May 2011
- Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
- Page Count: 266
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