Research Catalog

Title

"Twentieth-century Americanism" : identity and ideology in Depression-era leftist fiction / Andrew C. Yerkes.

Author

Yerkes, Andrew C., 1967-

Publication

New York : Routledge, 2005.

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Details

Description

ix, 168 p.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Literary criticism and cultural theory

Uniform Title

Literary criticism and cultural theory

Alternative Title

20th century Americanism

Subjects

• Depressions in literature
• Identity (Psychology) in literature
• Right and left (Political science) in literature
• Political fiction, American > History and criticism
• Politics and literature > United States > History > 20th century
• Socialism and literature > United States > History > 20th century
• Communism and literature > United States > History > 20th century
• American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-162) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : revolutionary symbolism : depression-era leftist literature -- Ch. 1. Identity and ideology in Robert Cantwell's The land of plenty -- Ch. 2. Disguised theology of the master wizard : critical and scientific Marxism at the 1935 American Writers' Congress -- Ch. 3. "I was not a character in a novel" : fictionalizing the self in Agnes Smedley's Daughter of Earth -- Ch. 4. Totality and John Dos Passos's U.S.A. -- Ch. 5. Standardized : stereotypes of the Depression in the thirties novels of West and Steinbeck -- Ch. 6. The artist's dialectic : race authenticity in the thirties novels of Richard Wright -- Conclusion : the power of negative thinking.

ISBN

• 0415975387 (alk. paper)
• 9780415975384 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005017764

OCLC

• 61822946
• SCSB-11769529

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library