| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 282 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Better Red is an interdisciplinary study addressing the complicated intersection of American feminism and the political left as refracted in Tillie Olsen's and Meridel Le Sueur's lives and literary texts. The first book-length study to explore these feminist writers' ties to the American Communist Party, it contributes to a reenvisioning of 1930s U.S. Communism as well as to efforts to promote working-class writing as a legitimate category of literary analysis. At once loyal members of the male-dominated Communist party and emerging feminists, Olsen and Le Sueur exhibit in their writing tendencies both toward and away from Party tenets and attitudes-at points subverting formalist as well as orthodox Marxist literary categories. By producing working-class discourse, Olsen and Le Sueur challenge the bourgeois assumptions-often masked as classless and universal-of much canonical literature; and by creating working-class women's writing, they problematize the patriarchal nature of the Left and the masculinist assumptions of much proletarian literature, anticipating the concerns of "second wave" feminists a generation later. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Olsen, Tillie -- Political and social views.
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Olsen, Tillie. |
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Political and social views. |
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Le Sueur, Meridel -- Political and social views.
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Le Sueur, Meridel. |
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Olsen, Tillie, 1913- -- Political and social views. |
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Working class writings, American -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Working class writings, American. |
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Women authors. |
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Communism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Communism and literature. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Feminism and literature. |
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Women and literature. |
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Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Women authors, American. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Women communists -- United States -- Biography.
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Women communists. |
| Indexed Term |
Feminism Related to Literature |
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English literature Related to Politics |
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United States |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Coiner, Constance. Better red. New York : Oxford University Press, 1995 (DLC) 94013045 |
| ISBN |
0195056957 |
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9780195056952 |
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1423736400 (electronic book) |
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9781423736400 (electronic book) |
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1280523727 |
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9781280523724 |
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