TY  - GEN
T1  - Better red : the writing and resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur
T2  - OUP E-Books.
A1  - Coiner, Constance
LA  - English
PP  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
YR  - 1995
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm70722245
AB  - Better 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 reenvisioning of 1930s U.S. Communism as well as to efforts to promote working-class writing as a legitimate category of literary analysis. At once loyal members of the male-dominated Communist party and emerging feminists, Olsen and Le Sueur exhibit in their writing tendencies both toward and away from Party tenets and attitudes-at points subverting formalist as well as orthodox Marxist literary categories. By producing working-class discourse, Olsen 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.
OP  - 282
CN  - PS3565.L82 Z613 1995eb
SN  - 0195056957
SN  - 9780195056952
SN  - 1423736400
SN  - 9781423736400
SN  - 1280523727
SN  - 9781280523724
SN  - 9786610523726
SN  - 661052372X
KW  - Olsen, Tillie : Political and social views.
KW  - Le Sueur, Meridel : Political and social views.
KW  - Le Sueur, Meridel
KW  - Olsen, Tillie
KW  - Working class writings, American : Women authors : History and criticism.
KW  - Communism and literature : United States : History : 20th century.
KW  - Feminism and literature : United States : History : 20th century.
KW  - Women and literature : United States : History : 20th century.
KW  - Women authors, American : 20th century : Biography.
KW  - Women communists : United States : Biography.
KW  - Communisme et littérature : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Femmes et littérature : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Écrivaines américaines : 20e siècle : Biographies.
KW  - Femmes communistes : États-Unis : Biographies.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : American : General.
KW  - Communism and literature
KW  - Feminism and literature
KW  - Political and social views
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - Women authors, American
KW  - Women communists
KW  - United States
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - Feminism : Related to : Literature
KW  - English literature : Related to : Politics
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - History
ER  -