Proletarian Literature - Bibliography

Bibliography

Anthologies

• The American Writer's Congress edited by Henry Hart. International Publishers, New York 1935.
• Proletarian Literature in the United States: an Anthology edited by Granville Hicks, Joseph North, Paul Peters, Isidor Schneider and Alan Calmer; with a critical introduction by Joseph Freeman. International Publishers, New York 1935.

Studies

• Aaron, Daniel: Writers on the Left. Harcourt, New York 1961.
• Brown, Edward James. Russian Literature Since the Revolution. London: Collier Books, 1965.
• Denning, Michael: The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century. Verso, 1996.
• Empson, William. "Proletarian Literature," in Some Versions of Pastoral, pp. 3–23. New York: New Directions Paperbacks, 1965.
• Ferrero, Mario. Nicomedes Guzmán y la Generación del 38. Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Mar Afuera, 1982.
• Foley, Barbara: Radical Representations. Duke University Press, 1993.
• Freeman, Joseph. Introduction to Proletarian Literature in the United States. Granville Hicks, et al., eds. New York: International Publishers, 1935.
• Hart, Henry, ed. The American Writer's Congress. New York: International Publishers, 1935.
• Haywood, Ian, Working-Class Fiction: from Chartism to "Trainspotting". Plymouth: Nortcote House, 1997.
• Klaus, H. Gustav, The Literature of Labour: Two Hundred Years of Working-Class Writing. Brighton: Harvester, 1985. ISBN 0710806310
• Klaus, H. Gustav and Stephen Knight, eds. British Industrial Fictions. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000. ISBN 0708315968
• Lucaks, Georg. Studies in European Realism. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1964.
• Murphy, James F.: The Proletarian Moment. University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Ill 1991.
• Nelson, Cary: Revolutionary Memory: Recovering the Poetry of the American Left. Routledge, 2001.
• Pearson, Lon. Nicomedes Guzmán: Proletarian author in Chile's literary generation of 1938. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1964.
• Promis, José. La novela chilena del último siglo. Santiago: La Noria, 1993. See "http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicomedes_Guzm%C3%A1n".
• Rabinowitz, Paula: Labor and Desire: Women's Revolutionary Fiction in Depression America. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill 1991.
• Rideout, Walter B.: The Radical Novel in the United States: 1900-1954. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1956.
• or Andrei Sinyavsky; also wrote as Tertz, Abram. On Socialist Realism. Introduction by Czeslaw Milosz. Trans. by George Dennis. New York: Pantheon Books, 1993.
• Steinberg, Mark.: Proletarian Imagination: Self, Modernity, and the Sacred in Russia, 1910-1925. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. (On proletarian literature in late-imperial and early Soviet Russia)
• Wald, Alan M.: Writing from the Left. Verso, 1984.
• Wald, Alan M.: Exiles from a Future Time. University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

Articles

• Eric Homberger, "Proletarian Literature and the John Reed Clubs, 1929-1935," Journal of American Studies, vol. 13, no. 2 (Aug. 1979), pp. 221–244. In JSTOR.
• Victor Serge and Anna Aschenbach, "Is Proletarian Literature Possible?" Yale French Studies, No. 39 (1967), pp. 137–145. In JSTOR.
• R.W. Steadman, "A Critique of Proletarian Literature," North American Review, vol. 247, no. 1 (Spring 1939), pp. 142–152. In JSTOR.