You might also like

More about Better Red

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 237 loyalty points

Book synopsis

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.

Book details

Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Better Red
• Subtitle: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur
• Author: Constance Coiner
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 296
• EAN: 9780195056952
• ISBN: 0195056957
• ID: 04512604
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 673 g
• Dimensions: 240 × 161 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. June 1995

Trending among others

---

---

---