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Mothers, artists, and activists in fiction by women of the 1930s.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Mothers, artists, and activists in fiction by women of the 1930s./
Author:	Donovan, Elise Dievler.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1999,
Description:	175 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 62-08, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International62-08A.
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9987617
ISBN:	9780599947511

Mothers, artists, and activists in fiction by women of the 1930s.
Donovan, Elise Dievler.

Mothers, artists, and activists in fiction by women of the 1930s. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1999 - 175 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 62-08, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Southern California, 1999.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The 1920s and 1930s was a time when writing about workers and their labor union struggles flourished. The list of writers calling themselves "proletarian" is large, with many of them writing in more than one genre. It is during this period that writers most fully focused on the realities of the worker experience and overtly declared their political sympathies in their fiction. Women writers within this group came into prominence as voices for the oppressed female worker/wife/mother as well as prominent voices within the Communist Party. This study focuses on four novels written during that period: Agnes Smedley's Daughter of Earth, Tess Slesinger's The Unpossesed, Meridel Le Sueur's The Girl, and Fielding Burke's Call Home the Heart. In all four novels, the female protagonist is forced to make choices between the demands of motherhood and the demands of art and/or politics. The struggle to make these choices becomes the guiding force in the structure of the narratives. Therefore, these stories are at once political and personal, social and individual. They represent the process of self-discovery as it plays out against the backdrop of the class struggle. In addition, this study of these novels is designed to show how considerations regarding gender, sexuality, and class can be seen as reflected in narrative form. In all four works, the shape of the novel in some ways mirrors the state of the protagonist's sense of self; the narratives are often introspective, maintaining a highly subjective point of view. A key factor is the role of memory in forging individual and collective identity and the role of memory in terms of the shared or rejected processes of reproduction and motherhood. Finally, it is a lack of resolution at the end of these novels that most truly exemplifies the main character's own still-evolving sense of self and exemplifies as well the richness brought to the working-class literary tradition by the women writer of the 1930s.

ISBN: 9780599947511Subjects--Topical Terms:

523234
American literature.
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Activists

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