In the first major study of the twentieth-century American protest novel, Drake examines a group of authors who self-consciously exploited the revolutionary potential of the novel, transforming literary conventions concerning art and politics, readers and characters.

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KIMBERLY S. DRAKE Director of the Writing Program and Visiting Associate Professor at Scripps College, USA.

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Book Title: Subjectivity in the American Protest Novel
Authors: Kimberly S. Drake
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230118300
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-10716-8Published: 22 February 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-29069-7Published: 22 February 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-11830-0Published: 11 April 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 253
Topics: North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Media Studies

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Introduction: Determinism, Double Consciousness, and the Construction of Subjectivity in American Protest Novels

Rape, Repression, and Remainder: Racial Trauma in Wright’s Early Novels

“Women on the Go”: Stereotype, Domesticity, and Street Culture in Ann Petry’s Fiction

“You Make Your Children Sick”: Domestic Ideology and Working-Class Female Identity in Tillie Olsen’s Yonnondio and Sarah E. Wright’s This Child’s Gonna Live

Doing Time in/as “The Monster”: Subjectivity and Abjection in Narratives of Incarceration

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Introduction: Determinism, Double Consciousness, and the Construction of Subjectivity in American Protest Novels

Rape, Repression, and Remainder: Racial Trauma in Wright’s Early Novels

“Women on the Go”: Stereotype, Domesticity, and Street Culture in Ann Petry’s Fiction

“You Make Your Children Sick”: Domestic Ideology and Working-Class Female Identity in Tillie Olsen’s Yonnondio and Sarah E. Wright’s This Child’s Gonna Live

Doing Time in/as “The Monster”: Subjectivity and Abjection in Narratives of Incarceration

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