Critical approaches to American working-class literature. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Michelle M. Tokarczyk.
• Other Names: Tokarczyk, Michelle M, 1953-
• Contents: Introduction -- The realities of working-class life. Between the outhouse and the garbage dump: locating collapse in depression literature / Paula Rabinowitz -- Work is a war or, all their lives they dug their graves / Renny Christopher -- Respectability, refinement, and the underclass: Uncle Tom's cabin and Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Sylvia J. Cook -- Pedagogy and promises. Bridges, not ladders: working-class women poets on education, class consciousness, and the promise of upward mobility / Karen Kovacik -- Charlotte Simmons as working-class heroine in Tom Wolfe's I am Charlotte Simmons / David McCracken -- [Un]teaching the anthology: pedagogy vs canon in working-class literature / Nicholas Coles -- The experience of poverty. Agency not alligators: poor women and outside assistance in three short stories / Michelle M. Tokarczyk -- Homeless in Seattle: class violence in Sherman Alexie's Indian killer / Michele Fazio -- Cultural geography and local economies: the lesson from Egypt, Maine / Phoebe S.Jackson -- Reconsidering class, gender, and nation. A body of work: imperial labor and the writing of American manhood in London's The sea-wolf / Matthew Brophy -- The man in the family?: staging gender in Waiting for Lefty and American social protest theatre / Maria F. Brandt -- Henry Roth's re-imagination of class consciousness from call it sleep to the mercy of a rude stream novels: class consciousness, nationalist politics, and working-class studies in the age of cosmopolitanism / Tim Libretti.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (266 pages), (2 illustrations)
• Subjects: 810.9/920624; LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian; Working class writings, American -- History and criticism; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Working class in literature; Social classes in literature; Working class -- United States -- Intellectual life; LITERARY CRITICISM / General
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781136697418; 1136697411
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.