Title Better red : the writing and resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur / Constance Coiner

Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 282 pages) : illustrations Series OUP E-Books Summary 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 Analysis Feminism Related to Literature English literature Related to Politics United States Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Olsen, Tillie -- Political and social views Le Sueur, Meridel -- Political and social views SUBJECT Le Sueur, Meridel fast Olsen, Tillie fast Subject Working class writings, American -- Women authors -- History and criticism Communism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography Women communists -- United States -- Biography LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Communism and literature Feminism and literature Political and social views Women and literature Women authors, American Women communists United States Genre/Form Biographies Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 94013045 ISBN 0195056957 9780195056952 1423736400 9781423736400 1280523727 9781280523724 9786610523726 661052372X

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