Subjectivity in the American Protest Novel

Informationen zum Autor KIMBERLY S. DRAKE Director of the Writing Program and Visiting Associate Professor at Scripps College, USA. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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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

Product details

• Authors: K Drake, K. Drake, Kimberly S. Drake
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.02.2011
• EAN: 9781349290697
• ISBN: 978-1-349-29069-7
• No. of pages: 263
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; B, Media Studies, Communication, Media and Communication, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Palgrave Literature Collection, America—Literatures, North American Literature, America;fiction;novel