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Labor's Text: The Worker in American Fiction
by
Laura Hapke
"Hapke's book, remarkable in scope and inclusiveness, offers those concerned with American working people a mine of information about and analysis of the 'rich lived history of American laborers' as that has been represented in fictions of every kind. She provides an invaluable foundation for understanding the dirtiest of America's dirty big secrets: the pervasivness ...more
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Published
December 1st 2000
by Rutgers University Press
(first published February 1st 2000)
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A longish book that explains how labor has been portrayed in fiction writing. It is divided into chronological sections beginning with antebellum writings and continuing through to the present. For each section the author provides a historical context and then discusses the major labor writers of the period. However, it is sometimes confusing reading because she intersperses fact and fiction, and it sometimes isn't clear which work of fiction she is writing about. Though it has these minor fa...more
This book is amazingly comprehensive. With how long and inclusive it is, it's understandable that Hapke gets a little sloppy occasionally, particularly while discussing Chicana/o and African American literature in the last three chapters. While she makes a clear and energetic effort to be racially inclusive, the book still reads American working class literature from an Anglo-centric perspective. But as a resource and beginning point for forays into American working class studies, this book is i...more
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