The suburb of dissent : cultural politics in the U.S. and Canada during the 1930s

Irr, Caren. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0822321769 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 0822321920 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
ix, 293 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 1998.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Pt. I. National Culture. 1. Before F. O. Matthiessen: 30s Literary Histories and a Radical Concept of National Culture. 2. "All right we are two nations": Speed and the Stratification of Culture in U.S.A. 3. A Confluence of Nationalisms: Hugh MacLennan's Early Writings -- Pt. II. Proletarian Culture. 4. Situating "the Worker": An Overview of Proletarian Fiction. 5. Spatial Phobias in Native Son: Richard Wright's Revisions of the Proletarian Novel. 6. Evading the Garrison: Class and Ethnicity in Canadian Regional Fiction -- Pt. III. Mass Culture. 7. Provincial Avant-gardes: Confronting Mass Culture in U.S. and Canadian Literary Periodicals of the 1930s. 8. Proletarians Who Resemble Horatio Alger: Parody in Nathanael West's A Cool Million. 9. The Emergence of Public Culture: Dorothy Livesay's Documentary Poems -- Conclusion: Remembering the Suburb of Dissent.