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Author Mills, Nathaniel, 1982- author.

Title Ragged Revolutionaries : the Lumpenproletariat and African American Marxism in Depression-Era Literature / Nathaniel Mills.

Publication Info. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource
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Bibliography 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.
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Subject Marginality, Social, in literature.
Marginality, Social, in literature.
Socialism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Socialism and literature.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Communism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Communism and literature.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American literature.
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- African American authors.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Mills, Nathaniel, 1982- Ragged Revolutionaries. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2017 (DLC) 2016059943
ISBN 9781613765128 (electronic book)
1613765126 (electronic book)
9781625342799 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9781625342782 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
1625342780