Daughter of earth.
by Agnes Smedley, Agnes Smedley, and Agnes Smedley
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Branded as a "radical," a "Premature fascist," and a "red sympathizer" who saw her books burned during the height of the McCarthy period of the 1950s, Agnes Smedley was largely excised from American literature until the 1973 reissue of Daughter of Earth. With fierce and painful honesty, this autobiographical novel describes her recurrent attempts to survive the scars of the poverty, child abuse, ignorance, and pain that she felt growing up in Midwestern and Western mining towns during the early part of this century, and portrays her involvement as an adult with revolutionary movements in India and China. This rare example of the self-transformation of an ordinary working-class woman into a feminist, teacher, writer, tireless activist for social change and revolutionary is powerful and compelling.
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A precious, priceless book-from the foreword by Alice Walker "An entire society is limned in the pages of this book ... The power of "Daughter of Earth" lies in the erotic heat which informs every page of the book, erotic in the original Greek sense of life force."--Vivian Gornick, "The Village Voice" Suggested for course use in: U.S. literature working-class studies Agnes Smedley (1892 - 1950) also wrote five books about China, including "Portrait Of Chinese Women in Revolution" 0-912670-44-4 PB b?" 1-55861-075-8 HC (The Feminist Press).
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