Transforming American realism : working-class women writers of the twentieth century
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Transforming American realism : working-class women writers of the twentieth century
University Press of America, c2007
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Transforming American realism : working-class women writers of the 20th century
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Bibliography: p. 109-114
Includes index
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Description
At the turn of the twentieth century, realism meant drunken laborers participating in sordid sex and violent acts. As the century progressed, however, the workers seized the pen and forcibly changed the genre. When today's critics label realism a reactionary attempt to squelch social change, they ignore how working-class writers transformed it to fit their own interests. In doing so, they altered the course of American realism. Working-class women bent to their own purposes several variants of realism, including naturalism, proletarian realism, and magic realism. From the 1903 best-seller by two socialites who posed as 'factory girls' and wrote about their experiences, to the depression-era authors who tried to include women in the proletariat by writing about sex, to the later writers who incorporated their cultural heritage to create precursors of magic realism, the rise of working-class fiction has helped realism remain fresh, relevant, and lucrative.
Table of Contents
Part 1 Acknowlegments Part 2 Preface Part 3 Introduction Chapter 4 Class and the Uses of Realism Chapter 5 Representing Class in Fact and Fiction: Reformers and Naturalist Narratives Chapter 6 "Cotton Patch Strumpets" and Machinelike Women: Performing Classed Genders Chapter 7 Borders, Banshees, and Laboring Bodies: The Supernatural Invasion of the Material Chapter 8 Like You/Not Like You: The Mulitiple Gestures of the Supernatural Mulitcultural Novel Part 9 Conclusion Part 10 Notes Part 11 Bibliography Part 12 Index
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