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Zusatztext "[A] much-needed and much-welcomed anthology of literary criticism... this volume stands as an excellent reflection of the current state of working-class literary studies! as it also sets the stage for future forward movement." - Working-Class Notes Informationen zum Autor Michelle M. Tokarczyk is a professor of English at Goucher College with publications in working-class studies and contemporary literature. Publications include Class Definitions: On the Lives and Writings of Maxine Hong Kingston, Sandra Cisneros, and Dorothy Allison, the co-edited Working-Class Women in the Academy, and The House I'm Running From: Poems . Klappentext Critical Approaches to American Working-Class Literature is the first anthology to focus on literary criticism of working-class American literature. The literature examined is from the 1850s to the present and includes work in several genres. Several prominent scholars have contributed, and emerging scholars are represented as well. Zusammenfassung Critical Approaches to American Working-Class Literature is the first anthology to focus on literary criticism of working-class American literature. The literature examined is from the 1850s to the present and includes work in several genres. Several prominent scholars have contributed, and emerging scholars are represented as well. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Part I: The Realities of Working-Class Life 1. Between the Outhouse and the Garbage Dump: Locating Collapse in Depression Literature. Paula Rabinowitz 2. Work is a War or, All Their Lives They Dug Their Graves. Renny Christopher 3. Respectability, Refinement, and the Underclass: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Sylvia J. Cook Part II: Pedagogy and Promises 4. Bridges, Not Ladders: Working-Class Women Poets on Education, Class Consciousness, and the Promise of Upward Mobility. Karen Kovacik 5. Charlotte Simmons as Working-Class Heroine in Tom Wolfe’s I am Charlotte Simmons. David McCracken 6. [Un]teaching the Anthology: Pedagogy vs Canon in Working-Class Literature. Nicholas Coles Part III: The Experience of Poverty 7. Agency Not Alligators: Poor Women and Outside Assistance in Three Short Stories. Michelle M. Tokarczyk 8. Homeless in Seattle: Class Violence in Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer. Michele Fazio 9. Cultural Geography and Local Economies: The Lesson from Egypt, Maine. Phoebe S.Jackson Part IV: Reconsidering Class, Gender, and Nation 10. A Body of Work: Imperial Labor and the Writing of American Manhood in London’s The Sea-Wolf. Matthew Brophy 11. The Man in the Family": Staging Gender in Waiting for Lefty and American Social Protest Theatre. Maria F. Brandt 12. Henry Roth’s Re-Imagination of Class Consciousness from Call it Sleep to the Mercy of a Rude Stream Novels: Class Consciousness, Nationalist Politics, and Working-Class Studies in the Age of Cosmopolitanism. Tim Libretti ...
