Tillie Olsen and the dialectical philosophy of proletarian literature /
This study historicizes Tillie Olsen's fiction in the context of the Depression-era proletarian literary movement in the United States and its philosophy of dialectical materialism. It argues that dialectical materialism informs both the form and content of her fiction.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books,
[2018]
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| Series: | Innovation and activism in American women's writing.
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Table of Contents:
- Proletarian literature & dialectical theory
- Materialist dialectics in Tillie Olsen's early work
- Tell me a riddle & the dialectics of everyday life
- "Requa I" : the power of the negative
- Afterword: "The word made flesh": dialectical materialism as a living philosophy