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ISBN-13: 9781498578752
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
By Anthony Dawahare
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Local release date: 10/09/2020
Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 148 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Literary studies: general [DSB]Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH]Gender studies: women [JFSJ1]20th century [3JJ]

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Google Preview: Contrary to previous studies of Tillie Olsen's writing, Tillie Olsen and the Dialectical Philosophy of Proletarian Literature analyzes the impact of one of the most important philosophies of the last century, dialectical materialism, on the form and content of Olsen's fiction. By revealing the unconceptualized dialectics of Olsen's work and its appreciation by scholars and casual readers, this study achieves a dialectical synthesis that incorporates and extends the insights of and about Olsen in terms of dialectical materialism. By foregrounding Olsen's dialectical approach, it explains and largely resolves apparent contradictions between her Marxism and feminism; her depictions of class, race, and gender; the literature of her earlier and later periods; and her use of realist and modernist literary forms and techniques. Consequently, this project makes a case for the importance of Olsen's Marxist education during the "Red Decade" of the 1930s and within the U.S. proletarian literary movement.; Chapter 1: Proletarian Literature & Dialectical Theory Chapter 2: Materialist Dialectics in Tillie Olsen's Early Work Chapter 3: Tell Me a Riddle & the Dialectics of Everyday Life Chapter 4: "Requa I": The Power of the Negative Afterword: "The Word Made Flesh": Dialectical Materialism as a Living Philosophy; Google Preview content