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100 1 $aCoiner, Constance.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86080046
245 10 $aBetter red :$bthe writing and resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur /$cConstance Coiner.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c[1995], ©1995.
263 $a9501
300 $axii, 282 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 261-274) and index.
505 0 $a1. The Thirties' Literary Left -- 2. "Scratch a Communist ...": Women and the American Communist Party During the Depression -- 3. Meridel Le Sueur: Biographical Sketch and Reportage -- 4. Le Sueur's The Girl, "Our Fathers," "Annunciation," and "Corn Village" -- 5. Tillie Olsen: Biographical Sketch and Thirties' Publications -- 6. Olsen's Yonnondio: From the Thirties -- 7. Literature as "No One's Private Ground": Olsen's Tell Me a Riddle and Silences.
520 $aBetter Red is an interdisciplinary study addressing the complicated intersection of American feminism and the political left as refracted in Tillie Olsen's and Meridel Le Sueur's lives and literary texts. The first book-length study to explore these feminist writers' ties to the American Communist Party, it contributes to a re-envisioning of 1930s U.S. Communism as well as to efforts to promote working-class writing as a legitimate category of literary analysis.
520 8 $aAt once loyal members of the male-dominated Communist Party and emerging feminists, Olsen and Le Sueur move both toward and away from Party tenets and attitudes - subverting through their writing formalist as well as orthodox Marxist literary categories.
520 8 $aOlsen and Le Sueur challenge the bourgeois assumptions - often masked as classless and universal - of much canonical literature; and by creating working-class women's writing, they problematize the patriarchal nature of the Left and the masculinist assumptions of much proletarian literature, anticipating the concerns of "second wave" feminists a generation later.
600 10 $aOlsen, Tillie$xPolitical and social views.
600 10 $aLe Sueur, Meridel$xPolitical and social views.
650 0 $aWorking class writings, American$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aCommunism and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009120902
650 0 $aFeminism and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103672
650 0 $aWomen and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113456
650 0 $aWomen authors, American$y20th century$vBiography.
650 0 $aWomen communists$zUnited States$vBiography.
852 00 $bglx$hPS3565.L82$iZ613 1995
852 00 $bbar$hPS3565.L82$iZ613 1995