Subjectivity in the American protest novel

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Title:

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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Summary

In the first major study of the twentieth-century American protest novel, Drake examines a group of authors who self-consciously exploited the revolutionary potential of the novel, transforming literary conventions concerning art and politics, readers and characters.