Subjectivity in the American protest novel
by
 
Drake, Kimberly, 1965-

Title
Subjectivity in the American protest novel

Author
Drake, Kimberly, 1965-

ISBN
9780230107168

Personal Author
Drake, Kimberly, 1965-

Edition
1st ed.

Publication Information
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Physical Description
x, 253 p. ; 22 cm.

General Note
Formerly CIP.

Contents
Introduction: Determinism, double consciousness, and the construction of subjectivity in American protest novels -- Rape, repression, and remainder: racial trauma in Wright's early novels -- Women on the go: stereotype, domesticity, and street culture in Ann Petry's fiction -- "You make your children sick": domestic ideology and working-class female identity in Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio and Sarah Wright's This child's gonna live -- Doing time in/as "the monster": subjectivity and abjection in narratives of incarceration.

Subject Term
Protest literature, American -- History and criticism.
 
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
 
American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
 
Subjectivity in literature.
 
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
 
African Americans in literature.
 
Working class in literature.
 
Women in literature.


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