• Media type: Book
  • Title: Critical approaches to American working-class literature
  • Contains: IntroductionThe 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.
    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.
  • Contributor: Tokarczyk, Michelle M. [Editor]
  • Published: New York, NY [u.a.]: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
  • Published in: Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 20
  • Extent: XIV, 249 Seiten; Illustrationen
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9780415885461
  • RVK notation: HR 1520 : Darstellungen unter besonderen Gesichtspunkten
    HT 1740 : Sonstige Stile, Richtungen, Gruppen
    HU 1745 : Sonstige Stile, Richtungen, Gruppen (einschl. Psychologismus, Modernismus ohne Beat Generation)
    HU 1691 : Einzelne Stoffe und Motive
  • Keywords: USA > Arbeiterliteratur > Geschichte
    USA > Arbeiterliteratur
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index

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  • Item ID: 33144698
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