Subjectivity in the American Protest Novel

ISBN-13: 9780230107168 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 253 str.

Kimberly S Drake

Opis

In the first major study of the twentieth-century American protest novel, Drake examines a group of authors who self-consciously exploited the revolutionary potential of the novel, transforming literary conventions concerning art and politics, readers and characters.

Spis treści

Protest Literature in the U.S.: Determinism, Double Consciousness, and the Construction of Subjectivity Rape, Repression, and Remainder in Wright's Early Novels: Toward a Theory of African-American Trauma 'Women on the Go': Double Consciousness, Domesticity, and Street Culture in Ann Petry's Fiction 'You Make Your Children Sick': Dirt, Domesticity, and Working-Class Female Identity in Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio and Sarah Wright's This Child's Gonna Live

O autorze

KIMBERLY S. DRAKE Director of the Writing Program and Visiting Associate Professor at Scripps College, USA.