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Himes, Chester --- Baldwin, James --- Baraka, Imamu Amiri --- Wright, Richard --- Attaway, William A., 1911-1986. Blood on the Forge --- Ellison, Ralph Waldo

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Drawing on a wide range of major literary voices, including Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison, as well as lesser-known writers such as William Attaway (Blood on the Forge) and Dorothy West (The Living Is Easy), Rodgers conducts a kind of literary archaeology of the Great Migration. He mines the writers' biographical connections to migration and teases apart the ways in which individual novels relate to one another, to the historical situation of black America, and to African-American literature as a whole. In reading migration novels in relation to African-American literary texts such as slave narratives, folk tales, and urban fiction, Rodgers affirms the southern folk roots of African-American culture and argues for a need to stem the erosion of southern memory.

Fiction --- Thematology --- American literature --- American fiction --- Literature and society --- African Americans --- Rural-urban migration in literature --- Migration, Internal, in literature --- City and town life in literature --- African Americans in literature --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- African American authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- History --- Intellectual life --- Southern States --- In literature. --- African American authors --- Migration [Internal ] in literature --- United States --- 20th century --- Southern States in literature --- Attaway, William A. --- Criticism and interpretation --- Johnson, James Weldon --- Bland, Alden --- Wright, Richard --- Thurman, Wallace --- Toomer, Jean --- Kelley, William Melvin --- Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt --- Ellison, Ralph Waldo --- White, Walter Francis --- McKay, Claude --- Hurston, Zora Neale --- Morrison, Toni --- West, Dorothy --- Slavery in literature --- Slaves' writings [American ]

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In this revisionary study, Barbara Foley challenges prevalent myths about left-wing culture in the Depression-era U.S. Focusing on a broad range of proletarian novels and little-known archival material, the author recaptures an important literature and rewrites a segment of American cultural history long obscured and distorted by the anti-Communist bias of contemporaries and critics.Josephine Herbst, William Attaway, Jack Conroy, Thomas Bell and Tillie Olsen, are among the radical writers whose work Foley reexamines. Her fresh approach to the U.S. radicals' debates over experimentalism, the relation of art to propaganda, and the nature of proletarian literature recasts the relation of writers to the organized left. Her grasp of the left's positions on the "Negro question" and the "woman question" enables a nuanced analysis of the relation of class to race and gender in the proletarian novel. Moreover, examining the articulation of political doctrine in different novelistic modes, Foley develops a model for discussing the interplay between politics and literary conventions and genres.Radical Representations recovers a literature of theoretical and artistic value meriting renewed attention form those interested in American literature, American studies, the U. S. left, and cultural studies generally.

American fiction --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- Politics and literature --- United States --- History --- Working class writings [American ] --- Political fiction [American ] --- Social problems in literature --- Attaway, William A., 1911-1986. Blood on the Forge --- Cantwell, Robert Emmett --- Criticism and interpretation --- Conroy, Jack --- Dos Passos, John --- Gold, Michael --- Hicks, Granville --- Olsen, Tillie --- Rahv, Philip --- Freeman, Joseph --- Zugsmith, Leane --- Bell, Thomas --- Smedley, Agnes --- Rollins, William --- Page, Myra --- Weatherwax, Clara --- Political fiction, American --- Proletariat in literature --- Radicalism in literature --- Working class in literature --- Working class writings, American --- Working class --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Social classes --- Labor --- Labor and laboring classes in literature --- Intellectual life --- Employment --- Working class in literature. --- Social problems in literature. --- Proletariat in literature. --- Radicalism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life.