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Subjectivity in the American protest novel / Kimberly S. Drake.
- Title
- Subjectivity in the American protest novel / Kimberly S. Drake.
- Author
- Drake, Kimberly, 1965-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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| Text | Request in advance | PS228.P73 D73 2011 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 253 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- Protest literature, American > History and criticism
- American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- American fiction > History and criticism
- Subjectivity in literature
- Identity (Psychology) in literature
- African Americans in literature
- Working class in literature
- Women in literature
- American fiction > African American authors
- American fiction
- LITERARY CRITICISM > General
- Protest literature, American
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-245) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: Determinism, double consciousness, and the construction of subjectivity in American protest novels -- Rape, repression, and remainder: racial trauma in Wright's early novels -- Women on the go: stereotype, domesticity, and street culture in Ann Petry's fiction -- "You make your children sick": domestic ideology and working-class female identity in Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio and Sarah Wright's This child's gonna live -- Doing time in/as "the monster": subjectivity and abjection in narratives of incarceration.
- ISBN
- 9780230107168
- 0230107168
- LCCN
- ^^2010035162
- OCLC
- 659305807
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library