Daughter of earth.
By: Afterword by Paul Lauter.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Series: Feminist Press reprint series
Publisher: The Feminist Press
Published: 1973
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
Subjects: Women -- Fiction
Description: Branded as a "radical," a "Premature fascist," and a "red sympathizer" who saw her books burned during the height of the McCarthy period of the 1950s, Agnes Smedley was largely excised from American literature until the 1973 reissue of Daughter of Earth. With fierce and painful honesty, this autobiographical novel describes her recurrent attempts to survive the scars of the poverty, child abuse, ignorance, and pain that she felt growing up in Midwestern and Western mining towns during the early part of this century, and portrays her involvement as an adult with revolutionary movements in India and China. This rare example of the self-transformation of an ordinary working-class woman into a feminist, teacher, writer, tireless activist for social change and revolutionary is powerful and compelling.