Subjectivity in the American Protest Novel [electronic resource] /
Drake, K.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
America-Literatures.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Communication.
North American Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Media Studies.