Ragged Revolutionaries
Subtitle: The Lumpenproletariat and African American Marxism in Depression-Era Literature
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: Jun 09, 2017
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781625342799
Description: Introduction: Communists, writers, and other outsiders -- The ragged proletariat: itineraries for a transient concept -- Richard Wright and the lumpenproletarian desire for revolution -- From Oklahoma City to Tuskegee, from Harlem to Dayton: the sites, levels, and travels of Ralph Ellison's Marxism -- Prostitutes, delinquents, and folk heroes: Margaret Walker's lumpenproletariat -- Conclusion: afterlives of the Depression lumpenproletariat.
Notes: Source title: Ragged Revolutionaries: The Lumpenproletariat and African American Marxism in Depression-Era Literature