Radical revisions
Subtitle: rereading 1930s culture
By: edited by Bill Mullen and Sherry Lee Linkon.
Contributors: Mullen, Bill, 1959-; Linkon, Sherry Lee, 1959-
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Radicalism in literature.; Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Radicalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; African Americans in literature.; Proletariat in literature.; United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Description: Radical Revisions brings together some of the best and most exciting recent work on the literature and popular culture of the 1930s. Contributors examine a wide range of texts, from classics such as Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio to popular icons such as King Kong and largely ignored novels such as Josephine Herbst's The Wedding.

Drawing on recent theories of gender, class, race, ethnicity, and representation, they reexamine texts previously brushed aside as artistically uninteresting or too popular to be taken seriously.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.