Tillie Olsen: Working-Class Mother, Proletarian Writer and Feminist Forerunner
In this article, I want to trace the interwoven pattern of relationships between Tillie Olsen’s life as a working-class mother, her radical political commitment as a socialist and feminist and her own fictional and non-fictional writing. I want to show that despite the fragmentary nature of her lite...
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Föreningen Tidskriften Moderna språk
2016-12-01
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| Series: | Moderna Språk |
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| Online Access: | https://publicera.kb.se/mosp/article/view/7870 |
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| Summary: | In this article, I want to trace the interwoven pattern of relationships between Tillie Olsen’s life as a working-class mother, her radical political commitment as a socialist and feminist and her own fictional and non-fictional writing. I want to show that despite the fragmentary nature of her literary production, there is a tangible and essential link between her personal experience, her politics and her aesthetics as a modern proletarian writer. It is, I would claim, this combination of gender, class and radical consciousness that enabled her to produce some of the most remarkably unorthodox fictional narratives of working-class women’s lives in the whole of twentieth-century American literature. |
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| ISSN: | 2000-3560 |