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"Twentieth-century Americanism" : identity and ideology in Depression-era leftist fiction / Andrew C. Yerkes.
- Title
- "Twentieth-century Americanism" : identity and ideology in Depression-era leftist fiction / Andrew C. Yerkes.
- Author
- Yerkes, Andrew C., 1967-
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, 2005.
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- Description
- ix, 168 p.; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Literary criticism and cultural theory
- Uniform Title
- Literary criticism and cultural theory
- Alternative Title
- 20th century Americanism
- Subject
- American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Communism and literature > United States > History > 20th century
- Socialism and literature > United States > History > 20th century
- Politics and literature > United States > History > 20th century
- Political fiction, American > History and criticism
- Right and left (Political science) in literature
- Identity (Psychology) in literature
- Depressions in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-162) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction : revolutionary symbolism : depression-era leftist literature -- Ch. 1. Identity and ideology in Robert Cantwell's The land of plenty -- Ch. 2. Disguised theology of the master wizard : critical and scientific Marxism at the 1935 American Writers' Congress -- Ch. 3. "I was not a character in a novel" : fictionalizing the self in Agnes Smedley's Daughter of Earth -- Ch. 4. Totality and John Dos Passos's U.S.A. -- Ch. 5. Standardized : stereotypes of the Depression in the thirties novels of West and Steinbeck -- Ch. 6. The artist's dialectic : race authenticity in the thirties novels of Richard Wright -- Conclusion : the power of negative thinking.
- ISBN
- 0415975387 (alk. paper)
- 9780415975384 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2005017764
- OCLC
- 61822946
- SCSB-11769529
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library