Title:
In the company of radical women writers / Rosemary Hennessy.
ISBN:
9781517914899
9781517914905
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Publication Information:
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2023]
Physical Description:
ix, 308 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
Contents:
Introduction: Life-making essentials, life-writing inventions -- Labor. Black and red -- Centering domestic workers: the Harlem-based politics of Marvel Cooke, Louise Thompson Patterson, Claudia Jones, and Alice Childress -- Land. The ground we tread -- Unsettling the grassroots: the intimate distance of whiteness in Josephine Herbst -- The radical ecology of Meridel Le Sueur -- Love. Particles of intense life -- Shadowing the erotics of race work in Muriel Rukeyser.
Summary:
"In the Company of Radical Women Writers rediscovers the political commitments and passionate advocacy of seven writers who as young women turned to communism during the Great Depression. Over decades of national crisis, they spoke to issues of labor, land, and love in ways that provide thought-provoking guidance and bracing inspiration in the ongoing fight for justice." -- Provided by publisher.
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OCLC Number:
on1347696744
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