Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. PART ONE
5. 1. The Legacy of Anti-Communism 3
6. 2. Influences on American Proletarian Literature 44
7. 3. Defining Proletarian Literature 86
8. 4. Art or Propaganda? 129
9. 5. Race, Class, and the "Negro Question" 170
10. 6. Women and the Left in the 1930S 213
11. PART TWO
12. 7. Realism and Didacticism in Proletarian Fiction 249
13. 8. The Proletarian Fictional Autobiography 284
14. 9. The Proletarian Bildungsroman 321
15. 10. The Proletarian Social Novel 362
16. 11. The Collective Novel 398
17. Afterword 443
18. Index 447