Labor Pains: New Deal Fictions of Race, Work, and Sex in the South

by Christin Marie Taylor

Book Overview

From the 1930s to the 1960s, the Popular Front produced a significant era in African American literary radicalism. While scholars have long associated the black radicalism of the Popular Front with the literary Left and the working class, Christin Marie Taylor considers how black radicalism influenced southern fiction about black workers, offering a new view of work and labor.

At the height of the New Deal era and its legacies, Taylor examines...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496824075
• ISBN13: 9781496824073
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"