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.

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

Inhalt
Protest Literature in the U.S.: Determinism, Double Consciousness, and the Construction of Subjectivity Rape, Repression, and Remainder in Wright's Early Novels: Toward a Theory of African-American Trauma 'Women on the Go': Double Consciousness, Domesticity, and Street Culture in Ann Petry's Fiction 'You Make Your Children Sick': Dirt, Domesticity, and Working-Class Female Identity in Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio and Sarah Wright's This Child's Gonna Live