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Ragged revolutionaries : the lumpenproletariat and African American Marxism in Depression-era literature
- Title
- Ragged revolutionaries : the lumpenproletariat and African American Marxism in Depression-era literature / Nathaniel Mills.
- Author
- Mills, Nathaniel, 1982-
- Publication
- Amherst ; Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, [2017]
- ©2017
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- Description
- xii, 208 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- 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
- Communism and literature
- Socialism and literature
- American literature > African American authors
- United States
- Marginality, Social, in literature
- Communism and literature > United States > History > 20th century
- American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- 1900-1999
- American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
- History
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Socialism and literature > United States > History > 20th century
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 17-1609
- ISBN
- 9781625342799
- 1625342799
- 9781625342782
- 1625342780
- LCCN
- 2016059943
- OCLC
- 966609405
- Author
- Mills, Nathaniel, 1982- author.
- Title
- Ragged revolutionaries : the lumpenproletariat and African American Marxism in Depression-era literature / Nathaniel Mills.
- Publisher
- Amherst ; Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 17-1609