Proletarian Literature in the United States

Description

Originally Publishers in 1935, and long out of print, International Publishers is proud to bring this collection of short stories, poems, reportage, and literary criticism, back to print.

Included in these pages, readers will find well known authors, such as John Dos Passos, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Meridel Le Sueur, as well as lesser known contributors. Published as the United States was still reeling from the Great Depression, this Anthology wasn’t just a collection of literature. It was a call for collective action and socialism!

While “Proletarian Literature” is now studied in university and college classes, in 1935 it was meant for the masses, the trade union and community activists then in motion, organizing, gravitating around the Communist Party USA. As we enter another Gilded Age, as the gap between the rich and the poor continue to widen, as the threat of right-wing authoritarianism is on the rise, it is long overdue that International Publishers revisits Proletarian Literature in the United States: An Anthology.

This new edition includes a Foreword by Joel Wendland-Liu, Associate Professor, Liberal Studies Department at Grand Valley State University and the author of Mythologies: A Political Economy of U.S. Literature in the Long Nineteenth-Century.