Critical approaches to American working-class literature
By: edited by Michelle M. Tokarczyk
Series: Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature -- 20
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780415885461
Subjects: Working class in literature; American Working class writings; Working class; Social classes in literature; Intellectual life; History and criticism; American literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The realities of working-class life. Between the outhouse and the garbage dump: locating collapse in depression literature / Paula Rabinowitz; title: Work is a war or, all their lives they dug their graves / Renny Christopher; title: Respectability, refinement, and the underclass: Uncle Tom's cabin and Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Sylvia J. Cook; title: Pedagogy and promises. Bridges, not ladders: working-class women poets on education, class consciousness, and the promise of upward mobility / Karen Kovacik; title: Charlotte Simmons as working-class heroine in Tom Wolfe's I am Charlotte Simmons / David McCracken; title: [Un]teaching the anthology: pedagogy vs canon in working-class literature / Nicholas Coles; title: The experience of poverty. Agency not alligators: poor women and outside assistance in three short stories / Michelle M. Tokarczyk; title: Homeless in Seattle: class violence in Sherman Alexie's Indian killer / Michele Fazio; title: Cultural geography and local economies: the lesson from Egypt, Maine / Phoebe S.Jackson; title: Reconsidering class, gender, and nation. A body of work: imperial labor and the writing of American manhood in London's The sea-wolf / Matthew Brophy; title: The man in the family?: staging gender in Waiting for Lefty and American social protest theatre / Maria F. Brandt; title: 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.