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Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question
This book argues that British proletarian literature was a politicised form of modernism which culturally transformed Britain.
Radical Representations
In this revisionary study, Barbara Foley challenges prevalent myths about left-wing culture in the Depression-era U.S. Focusing on a broad range of proletarian novels and little-known archival material, the author recaptures an important literature and rewrites a segment of American cultural history long obscured and distorted by the anti-Communist bias of contemporaries and critics. Josephine Herbst, William Attaway, Jack Conroy, Thomas Bell and Tillie Olsen, are among the radical writers whose work Foley reexamines. Her fresh approach to the U.S. radicals' debates over experimentalism, the relation of art to propaganda, and the nature of proletarian literature recasts the relation of write...
The Origin and Development of The Proletarian Novel
Scientific Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Literature - Modern Literature, University of Balochistan (English Literature), course: Literature, language: English, abstract: This research paper intends to trace the origin and development of the mature proletarian revolutionary novel. The mature revolutionary proletarian novels will be discussed and highlighted in this study in terms of Marxist hermeneutics. This new literary kind did not come into being prior to the imperialist era because the socioeconomic requirements for this literary genre were non-existent and the proletarian movement did not enter into its decisive historical stage of development. This new genre of the novel appe...
Literature and Class Consciousness
This study tracks the development of proletarian literature across several national contexts within the Americas. Local variants of proletarian literature are discussed in terms of historical and economic development while also placing them in the context of Marxist political and intellectual history. The study argues that proletarian literature is best understood as a parallel to the rethinking of Marxist political praxis and economic theory that occurred during the interwar period. That is, as a parallel to the early formulation of Western Marxism with thinkers such as Georg Lukács, Antonio Gramsci, and José Carlos Mariátegui. In the interwar period and following the Russian Revolution ...
Mass Politics and Visual Culture
With the central role of Marxism as my focus, I examine proletarian literary texts of 1920s and 1930s colonial Korea for their bodily representations of the masses. Amidst the emergence and proliferation of mass culture during the 1920s and 1930s, early socialist literary criticism and proletarian literature was the locus for the "importation" and development of indigenous intellectual, theoretical, and literary movements that reflect and engage with issues of nationalism, colonialism, modernity, and mass subjectivity. The first chapter, "Politics of the Body : Realism, Sensationalism and the Abject in 'New Tendency Literature' (1924-1927)" analyzes the intersection of socialism and mass lit...
For Dignity, Justice, and Revolution
Fiction created by and for the working class emerged worldwide in the early twentieth century as a response to rapid modernization, dramatic inequality, and imperial expansion. In Japan, literary youth, men and women, sought to turn their imaginations and craft to tackling the ensuing injustices, with results that captured both middle-class and worker-farmer readers. This anthology is a landmark introduction to Japanese proletarian literature from that period. Contextualized by introductory essays, forty expertly translated stories touch on topics like perilous factories, predatory bosses, ethnic discrimination, and the myriad indignities of poverty. Together, they show how even intensely personal issues form a pattern of oppression. Fostering labor consciousness as part of an international leftist arts movement, these writers, lovers of literature, were also challenging the institution of modern literature itself. This anthology demonstrates the vitality of the “red decade” long buried in modern Japanese literary history.
