Title: Ragged Revolutionaries
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.
Subjects: American literature, african american authors, history and criticism, American literature, history and criticism, 20th century, Communism and literature, American literature, African American authors, History and criticism, History, Socialism and literature, Marginality, Social, in literature