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Interwoven Histories: Working Class Literature and Theory

2018
Building on concepts developed in postcolonial, feminist and social theory—and concretely linking them to primary texts—this chapter suggests fresh theoretical approaches to working-class literature that acknowledge and foreground the tensions it embodies between its marginal status and its self-conscious occupation (to use Tony Harrison’s telling ...
J. Windle
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Critical Approaches to American Working-Class Literature

2012
Introduction: "How Do We Read Working-Class Texts?" Michelle Tokarczyk I. The Realities of Working-Class Life Introductory Comments-Tokarczyk 1. "Between the Outhouse and the Garbage Dump: Locations in/of Collapse" Paula Rabinowitz 2. "Work is a War, or All Their Lives They Dug Their Graves" Renny Christopher 3.
Michelle M. Tokarczyk
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The Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature

English Studies
Ben Clarke
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Rethinking Working-Class Literature

Contemporary Literature, 2014
Ulka Anjaria
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American Working-Class Literature: An Anthology

Labor, 2011
Philip Chassler
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(N)one of us? The case for descriptive representation of the contemporary working class

West European Politics, 2022
This article departs from the normative-theoretical literature on descriptive representation, which argues that some disadvantaged groups need a special form of representation.
Lea Elsässer, Armin Schäfer
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The Making of American Working‐Class Literature

Literature Compass, 2008
Abstract This essay traces a line of American literary history that emerges from the lives of workers. Starting with early ballads and songs from indentured servants and enslaved blacks and concluding with contemporary multicultural writing, it documents a process of cultural formation that is embedded in class ...
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Recognizing Your Class: Toivo Pekkanen, Raoul Palmgren, and Literature for the Working Class

Journal of Finnish Studies, 2015
The rise of working-class literature in post-Civil War Finland was often accompanied by an increased critical interest in the notion of the working-class author.
Veli-Matti Pynttäri
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The short happy life of the affluent working class: Consumption, debt and Embourgeoisement in the Age of Credit

Capital and Class, 2020
This article reconsiders the debate over the alleged embourgeoisement of the British working classes after Second World War. ‘Bourgeois affluence and proletarian apathy’ examines why members of the New Left concluded that a ‘bourgeois’ proletariat was ...
M. Day
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Left Behind in the Hungarian Rustbelt: The Cultural Political Economy of Working-Class Neo-Nationalism

, 2020
Nationalism is back with a renewed force. Hungary is a virulent example of the new nationalist ascendancy. As the country was a former liberal star pupil, Hungary’s neo-nationalist turn has been puzzling researchers for years.
G. Scheiring
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