How Long to Read On the Multicultural Front: Radical Writers in the United States from the Depression to the Cold War

How Long Does it Take to Read On the Multicultural Front: Radical Writers in the United States from the Depression to the Cold War?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 11 minutes to read On the Multicultural Front: Radical Writers in the United States from the Depression to the Cold War by Cheryl Ann Higashida

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The "Red Thirties" has been seen as a period--if not the period--of class rather than racial struggle, as the Depression widened the chasm between the haves and have-nots, politicized workers, and broadened the ranks of the Communist Party. However, recent scholarship has shown that women and/or ethnic writers were integral to the cultural Left, and that a key feature of radical writing at this time was that praxis must account for and define itself through the politics of identity. In other words, gender, ethnicity, race, and region intersected with class in determining the aesthetics of social change as well as the radicalism of aesthetic forms. This intersectionality remains undertheorized, such that gender and race are often treated as disjunctive categories of analysis. My dissertation addresses this problem by examining a range of writers who explored the ways in which social identities articulate and are articulated by each other within patriarchal capitalism. The first two chapters draw on Marxist feminism and cultural studies to (re)read the proletarian fiction of the major Communist writers, Richard Wright and Grace Lumpkin. I then discuss writers who extended "thirties" literary radicalism beyond the Communist Party and the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939 that "officially" ended the Popular Front. The African American Popular Front was defined for interracial audiences nationwide by women writers such as Ann Petry and Dorothy West who published in The Crisis and Opportunity. Carlos Bulosan and Hisaye Yamamoto brought literary radicalism into the post-World War II era by "double-voicing" the histories and experiences of Asian Americans through a poetics of silence. Neither propaganda in the crude sense of the word nor reportage of some transparent reality, radical writing redeploys literary styles and conventions to represent heterogeneity and difference while disclosing the interconnections among racism, patriarchy, and economic exploitation.

How long is On the Multicultural Front: Radical Writers in the United States from the Depression to the Cold War?

On the Multicultural Front: Radical Writers in the United States from the Depression to the Cold War by Cheryl Ann Higashida is 246 pages long, and a total of 62,976 words.

This makes it 83% the length of the average book. It also has 77% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read On the Multicultural Front: Radical Writers in the United States from the Depression to the Cold War Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 44 minutes to read On the Multicultural Front: Radical Writers in the United States from the Depression to the Cold War aloud.

What Reading Level is On the Multicultural Front: Radical Writers in the United States from the Depression to the Cold War?

On the Multicultural Front: Radical Writers in the United States from the Depression to the Cold War is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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