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American Working-class Literature

Nicholas Coles,Janet Zandy
American Working class Literature Book PDF

Author : Nicholas Coles,Janet Zandy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 964 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Working class
ISBN : UCSC:32106017805810

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American Working-Class Literature is an edited collection containing over 300 oieces of literature by, about, and in the interests of the working class in America. Organized in a broadly historical fashion, with texts are grouped around key historical and cultural developments in working-class life, this volume records the literature of the working classes from the early laborers of the 1600 up until the present.

A History of American Working-Class Literature

Nicholas Coles,Paul Lauter
A History of American Working Class Literature Book PDF

Author : Nicholas Coles,Paul Lauter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108509022

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A History of American Working-Class Literature sheds light not only on the lived experience of class but the enormously varied creativity of working-class people throughout the history of what is now the United States. By charting a chronology of working-class experience, as the conditions of work have changed over time, this volume shows how the practice of organizing, economic competition, place, and time shape opportunity and desire. The subjects range from transportation narratives and slave songs to the literature of deindustrialization and globalization. Among the literary forms discussed are memoir, journalism, film, drama, poetry, speeches, fiction, and song. Essays focus on plantation, prison, factory, and farm, as well as on labor unions, workers' theaters, and innovative publishing ventures. Chapters spotlight the intersections of class with race, gender, and place. The variety, depth, and many provocations of this History are certain to enrich the study and teaching of American literature.

Critical Approaches to American Working-Class Literature

Michelle Tokarczyk
Critical Approaches to American Working Class Literature Book PDF

Author : Michelle Tokarczyk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136697425

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Critical Approaches to American Working-Class Literature by Michelle Tokarczyk Pdf

This book is one of the first collections on a neglected field in American literature: that written by and about the working-class. Examining literature from the 1850s to the present, contributors use a wide variety of critical approaches, expanding readers’ understanding of the critical lenses that can be applied to working-class literature. Drawing upon theories of media studies, postcolonial studies, cultural geography, and masculinity studies, the essays consider slave narratives, contemporary poetry and fiction, Depression-era newspaper plays, and ethnic American literature. Depicting the ways that working-class writers render the lives, the volume explores the question of what difference class makes, and how it intersects with gender, race, ethnicity, and geographical location.

Working Classics

Peter Oresick,Nicholas Coles
Working Classics Book PDF

Author : Peter Oresick,Nicholas Coles
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 0252061330

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Working Classics by Peter Oresick,Nicholas Coles Pdf

A diverse collection of 169 poems by 74 poets writing about blue- collar America at work. Arrangement is by author, with indexing that gives access by subjects such as accidents, after work, bosses, various industries, retirement, sabotage, pride in work. The theme of work is a central and evocative one, and this collection brings its importance home.

No Country

Sonali Perera
No Country Book PDF

Author : Sonali Perera
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231151948

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No Country by Sonali Perera Pdf

Sonali Perera expands the discourse on working-class fiction by considering a range of international, noncanonical texts, identifying textual, political, and historical linkages overlooked by Eurocentric scholarship. Her readings connect the literary radicalism of the 1930s to the feminist recovery projects of the 1970s, and the anticolonial and postcolonial fiction of the 1960s to today’s counterglobalist struggles, building a new portrait of the twentieth century’s global economy and the experiences of the working class within it. Perera considers novels by the Indian anticolonial writer Mulk Raj Anand; the American proletarian writer Tillie Olsen; Sri Lankan Tamil/Black British writer and political journalist Ambalavaner Sivanandan; Indian writer and bonded-labor activist Mahasweta Devi; South African–born Botswanan Bessie Head; and the fiction and poetry published under the collective signature Dabindu, a group of free-trade-zone garment factory workers and feminist activists in contemporary Sri Lanka. Upsetting the North-South divide, Perera creates a new genealogy of working-class writing as world literature and transforms the ideological underpinnings casting literature as cultural practice.

White Working Class

Joan C. Williams
White Working Class Book PDF

Author : Joan C. Williams
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781633693791

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White Working Class by Joan C. Williams Pdf

"I recommend a book by Professor Williams, it is really worth a read, it's called White Working Class." -- Vice President Joe Biden on Pod Save America An Amazon Best Business and Leadership book of 2017 Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white working class. Meanwhile, members of the professional elite—journalists, managers, and establishment politicians--are on the outside looking in, left to argue over the reasons. In White Working Class, Joan C. Williams, described as having "something approaching rock star status" by the New York Times, explains why so much of the elite's analysis of the white working class is misguided, rooted in class cluelessness. Williams explains that many people have conflated "working class" with "poor"--but the working class is, in fact, the elusive, purportedly disappearing middle class. They often resent the poor and the professionals alike. But they don't resent the truly rich, nor are they particularly bothered by income inequality. Their dream is not to join the upper middle class, with its different culture, but to stay true to their own values in their own communities--just with more money. While white working-class motivations are often dismissed as racist or xenophobic, Williams shows that they have their own class consciousness. White Working Class is a blunt, bracing narrative that sketches a nuanced portrait of millions of people who have proven to be a potent political force. For anyone stunned by the rise of populist, nationalist movements, wondering why so many would seemingly vote against their own economic interests, or simply feeling like a stranger in their own country, White Working Class will be a convincing primer on how to connect with a crucial set of workers--and voters.

The Wages of Whiteness

David R. Roediger
The Wages of Whiteness Book PDF

Author : David R. Roediger
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781839768309

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The Wages of Whiteness by David R. Roediger Pdf

Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger’s widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. This, he argues, cannot be explained simply with reference to economic advantage; rather, white working-class racism is underpinned by a complex series of psychological and ideological mechanisms that reinforce racial stereotypes, and thus help to forge the identities of white workers in opposition to Blacks.

Critical Approaches to American Working-Class Literature

Michelle Tokarczyk
Critical Approaches to American Working Class Literature Book PDF

Author : Michelle Tokarczyk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136697418

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Critical Approaches to American Working-Class Literature by Michelle Tokarczyk Pdf

This book is one of the first collections on a neglected field in American literature: that written by and about the working-class. Examining literature from the 1850s to the present, contributors use a wide variety of critical approaches, expanding readers’ understanding of the critical lenses that can be applied to working-class literature. Drawing upon theories of media studies, postcolonial studies, cultural geography, and masculinity studies, the essays consider slave narratives, contemporary poetry and fiction, Depression-era newspaper plays, and ethnic American literature. Depicting the ways that working-class writers render the lives, the volume explores the question of what difference class makes, and how it intersects with gender, race, ethnicity, and geographical location.

Hands

Janet Zandy
Hands Book PDF

Author : Janet Zandy
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0813534356

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Hands by Janet Zandy Pdf

In linking forms of cultural expression to labour, occupational injuries and deaths, this title centres what is usualyy decentred - the complex culture of working class people.

The Personal and the Political in American Working-Class Literature, 1850–1939

Laurie J. C. Cella
The Personal and the Political in American Working Class Literature 1850 1939 Book PDF

Author : Laurie J. C. Cella
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498581219

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The Personal and the Political in American Working-Class Literature, 1850–1939 by Laurie J. C. Cella Pdf

As working women invaded the public space of the factory in the nineteenth century, they challenged Victorian notions of female domesticity and chastity. With virtue at the forefront of discussions regarding working women, aspects of working-class women’s culture—fashion, fiction, and dance halls—become vivid signifiers for moral impropriety, and attempts to censure these activities become overt attempts to censure female sexuality in the workplace. The Personal and the Political in American Working-Class Literature, 1850–1939 argues that these informal and often ignored “trifles” of female community provided the building blocks for female solidarity in the workplace. While most critical approaches to working-class fiction emphasize female suffering rather than agency, this book argues that working women themselves viewed aspects of consumer culture and new avenues for courtship as extensions of their rights as breadwinners. The strike itself is an intense moment of political upheaval that lends itself to more extensive personal and sexual freedoms. Through its analysis of strike novels, this book provides a fuller picture of working-class women as they simultaneously navigate new identities as “working ladies” and enter the dramatic and sometimes violent world of labor activism. This book is recommended for scholars of literary studies, women’s studies, and US history.

A Short History of the U.S. Working Class

Paul Le Blanc
A Short History of the U S Working Class Book PDF

Author : Paul Le Blanc
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781608466696

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“His aim is to make the history of labor in the U.S. more accessible to students and the general reader. He succeeds” (Booklist). In a blend of economic, social, and political history, Paul Le Blanc shows how important labor issues have been, and continue to be, in the forging of our nation. Within a broad analytical framework, he highlights issues of class, gender, race, and ethnicity, and includes the views of key figures of United States labor. The result is a thought-provoking look at centuries of American history from a perspective that is too often ignored or forgotten. “An excellent overview, enhanced by a valuable glossary.” —Elaine Bernard, director of the Harvard Trade Union Program

Common People

Kit de Waal
Common People Book PDF

Author : Kit de Waal
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783527472

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Common People by Kit de Waal Pdf

Working-class stories are not always tales of the underprivileged and dispossessed. Common People is a collection of essays, poems and memoir written in celebration, not apology: these are narratives rich in barbed humour, reflecting the depth and texture of working-class life, the joy and sorrow, the solidarity and the differences, the everyday wisdom and poetry of the woman at the bus stop, the waiter, the hairdresser. Here, Kit de Waal brings together thirty-three established and emerging writers who invite you to experience the world through their eyes, their voices loud and clear as they reclaim and redefine what it means to be working class. Features original pieces from Damian Barr, Malorie Blackman, Lisa Blower, Jill Dawson, Louise Doughty, Stuart Maconie, Chris McCrudden, Lisa McInerney, Paul McVeigh, Daljit Nagra, Dave O’Brien, Cathy Rentzenbrink, Anita Sethi, Tony Walsh, Alex Wheatle and more.

A History of British Working Class Literature

John Goodridge,Bridget Keegan
A History of British Working Class Literature Book PDF

Author : John Goodridge,Bridget Keegan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 815 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108121309

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A History of British Working Class Literature by John Goodridge,Bridget Keegan Pdf

A History of British Working-Class Literature examines the rich contributions of working-class writers in Great Britain from 1700 to the present. Since the early eighteenth century the phenomenon of working-class writing has been recognised, but almost invariably co-opted in some ultimately distorting manner, whether as examples of 'natural genius'; a Victorian self-improvement ethic; or as an aspect of the heroic workers of nineteenth- and twentieth-century radical culture. The present work contrastingly applies a wide variety of interpretive approaches to this literature. Essays on more familiar topics, such as the 'agrarian idyll' of John Clare, are mixed with entirely new areas in the field like working-class women's 'life-narratives'. This authoritative and comprehensive History explores a wide range of genres such as travel writing, the verse-epistle, the elegy and novels, while covering aspects of Welsh, Scottish, Ulster/Irish culture and transatlantic perspectives.

The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature

Marc Shell,Werner Sollors
The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature Book PDF

Author : Marc Shell,Werner Sollors
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 765 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780814797532

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The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature by Marc Shell,Werner Sollors Pdf

"American literature appears here as more than an offshoot of a single mother country, or of many mother countries, but rather as the interaction among diverse linguistic and cultural trajectories.".

Literature by the Working Class

Cassandra Falke
Literature by the Working Class Book PDF

Author : Cassandra Falke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1604978457

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Literature by the Working Class by Cassandra Falke Pdf

Viewing all of these stories together, Falke captures the richness of working-class culture, the bravery of these authors' persistence, and the fecundity of their literary imaginations. Literature by the Working Class proposes a way to read working-class autobiographies that attends to both the socio-historical influences on their composition and their value as individual literary works. Although social historians, reading historians, and historians of rhetoric have recognized the significance of working-class autobiography to the early nineteenth century, providing broad overviews of the genre, very little work has been done to read these works as literature. Part of this negligence arises for the style of these autobiographies. They reject notions of autonomous selfhood and linear self-creation that characterize other Romantic period autobiographical works.