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In the company of radical women writers

Rosemary Hennessy
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E-Book
Publication:
Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2023]
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Summary:
"In the Company of Radical Women Writers rediscovers the political commitments and passionate advocacy of seven writers who as young women turned to communism during the Great Depression. Over decades of national crisis, they spoke to issues of labor, land, and love in ways that provide thought-provoking guidance and bracing inspiration in the ongoing fight for justice"-- [Provided by publisher]
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Life-making essentials, life-writing inventions
  • Labor. Black and red
  • Centering domestic workers: the Harlem-based politics of Marvel Cooke, Louise Thompson Patterson, Claudia Jones, and Alice Childress
  • Land. The ground we tread
  • Unsettling the grassroots: the intimate distance of whiteness in Josephine Herbst
  • The radical ecology of Meridel Le Sueur
  • Love. Particles of intense life
  • Shadowing the erotics of race work in Muriel Rukeyser.
Author/Creator:
Hennessy, Rosemary , author
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Main Work:
In the company of radical women writers [by Hennessy, R.]
Other Related Resources:
Print version: In the company of radical women writers [by Hennessy, R.] (Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2023] — ISBN 9781517914899; LCCN 2022053779)
Subjects:
Women authors, American — Political and social views
American literature — Women authors — History and criticism
American literature — 20th century — History and criticism
Communism and literature — United States — History — 20th century
Literature and society — United States — History — 20th century
Radicalism in literature
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 09, 2023).
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Call Numbers:
PS151 .H465 2023eb
ISBNs:
9781452970059 (electronic book)
145297005X (electronic book)
9781452970066 (electronic book)
1452970068 (electronic book)
9781517914899 (hardcover) [Invalid]
9781517914905 (paperback) [Invalid]
Library of Congress Control Numbers:
2022053780
OCLC Numbers:
1382282487
Other Control Numbers:
EBC30192072 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp305606030