Ragged Revolutionaries : the Lumpenproletariat and African American Marxism in Depression-Era Literature /

Mills, Nathaniel, 1982-

Ragged Revolutionaries : the Lumpenproletariat and African American Marxism in Depression-Era Literature / Nathaniel Mills. - Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.



9781613765128


Marginality, Social, in literature.
Socialism and literature--History--United States--20th century.
Communism and literature--History--United States--20th century.
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.


Electronic Books.

PS153 / .R344 2017