Critical Approaches to American Working-Class Literature

Name: Critical Approaches to American Working-Class Literature
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Critical Approaches to American Working-Class LiteratureAuthor(s): Michelle Tokarczyk\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138849709, 978-1138849709\nSynopsis\nThis 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, an.