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Ragged Revolutionaries The Lumpenproletariat and African American Marxism in Depression-Era Literature
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Ragged Revolutionaries [electronic resource] : The Lumpenproletariat and African American Marxism in Depression-Era Literature / Nathaniel Mills.
ISBN
1613765126
9781613765128
1625342780
9781625342782 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781625342799 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2017. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
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Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2017 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2017 American Studies.
Project MUSE - 2017 Literature.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 27, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Communists, writers, and other outsiders
The ragged proletariat: itineraries for a transient concept
Richard Wright and the lumpenproletarian desire for revolution
From Oklahoma City to Tuskegee, from Harlem to Dayton: the sites, levels, and travels of Ralph Ellison's Marxism
Prostitutes, delinquents, and folk heroes: Margaret Walker's lumpenproletariat
Conclusion: afterlives of the Depression lumpenproletariat.
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