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.