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Contrary to previous studies of Tillie Olsen’s writing, Tillie Olsen and the Dialectical Philosophy of Proletarian Literature analyzes the impact of one of the most important philosophies of the last century, dialectical materialism, on the form and content of Olsen’s fiction. By revealing the unconceptualized dialectics of Olsen’s work and its appreciation by scholars and casual readers, this study achieves a dialectical synthesis that incorporates and extends the insights of and about Olsen in terms of dialectical materialism. By foregrounding Olsen’s dialectical approach, it explains and largely resolves apparent contradictions between her Marxism and feminism; her depictions of class, race, and gender; the literature of her earlier and later periods; and her use of realist and modernist literary forms and techniques. Consequently, this project makes a case for the importance of Olsen’s Marxist education during the “Red Decade” of the 1930s and within the U.S. proletarian literary movement.
Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature Between the Wars
A New Pandora's Box
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
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During and after the Harlem Renaissance, two intellectual forces --nationalism and Marxism--clashed and changed the future of African American writing. Current literary thinking says that writers with nationalist leanings wrote the most relevant fiction, poetry, and prose of the day. Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature Between the Wars: A New Pandora's Box challenges that notion. It boldly proposes that such writers as A. Philip Randolph, Langston Hughes, and Richard Wright, who often saw the world in terms of class struggle, did more to advance the anti-racist politics of African American letters than writers such as Countee Cullen, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Alain Locke, and Marcus Garvey, who remained enmeshed in nationalist and racialist discourse. Evaluating the great impact of Marxism and nationalism on black authors from the Harlem Renaissance and the Depression era, Anthony Dawahare argues that the spread of nationalist ideologies and movements between the world wars did guide legitimate political desires of black writers for a world without racism. But the nationalist channels of political and cultural resistance did not address the capitalist foundation of modern racial discrimination. During the period known as the ""Red Decade"" (1929-1941), black writers developed some of the sharpest critiques of the capitalist world and thus anticipated contemporary scholarship on the intellectual and political hazards of nationalism for the working class. As it examines the progression of the Great Depression, the book focuses on the shift of black writers to the Communist Left, including analyses of the Communists' position on the ""Negro Question,"" the radical poetry of Langston Hughes, and the writings of Richard Wright.
Red Christ
The Dangerous Memory of Christianity in Modern U.S. Literatures of Social Protest
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
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Offers a (re)consideration of the impact of radical conceptions of Christ on modern U.S. literature, its critique of inegalitarian social relations, and its visions for a just society. The Red Christ argues that some of the most popular left social protest literature published in the U.S. between 1890 and 1940 was inseparable from "Social Christianity," a historically important movement deeply concerned with issues of social justice. As this study shows, various images and iterations of the "red" Christ, including the trope of Jesus the carpenter, were used to critique unjust power structures, through representations of self-sacrifice, rebirth, and hope, as well as compassion for the socialist figure. This Red Christ is traceable to late 19th-century U.S. literature and shapes the protest literatures of the Harlem Renaissance and the Proletarian Literary Movement of the 1930s. Anthony Dawahare reads a broad range of writers – including Albion Tourgée, Charles Monroe Sheldon, Upton Sinclair, W.E.B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, and Dorothy Day – to demonstrate that this radical tradition of Christianity is woven into the fabric of U.S. literature. The influence of Social Christianity on U.S. writers did not expire with the movement’s demise during World War I, and post-war writers who were by no means Christian appropriated the radical message, vision, and tropes of Social Christianity, as other radical Christian writers, like Dorothy Day, emerged from the secular left. This study thus deepens our understanding of modern U.S. protest literature by revealing its submerged religious roots in a politically subversive Christianity.