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Author Rifkind, Candida

Title Comrades and Critics : Women, Literature, and the Left in 1930s Canada
Edition 2nd ed
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (279 pages)
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Socialist-Modernist Encounter -- Women, Modernism, and Socialism -- Dialectics of Scarcity and Abundance -- The Literary Left and the Field of Cultural Production -- 1 Revolution, Gender, and Third Period Modernism -- Dorothy Livesay and the Third Period -- Communist Periodicals and Counterpublics -- The Revolutionary Chorus -- The Social Work of Documentary Poetry -- 2 The Poet, the Public, and Popular Front Modernism -- The Dustbowl and the Spanish Civil War -- Popular Front Periodicals and Poetics -- Anne Marriott's The Wind Our Enemy: A Modernist Poem -- Anne Marriott's The Wind Our Enemy: A Popular Front Poem -- 3 Leftist Theatre and the Performance of Gender -- The Socialist Stage and Amateur Theatre -- Reconstructing Leftist Performances -- Women and the Communist Stage -- The Comradely Ideal and Social Democratic Drama -- 4 The Novel and Documentary Modernism -- Irene Baird's Waste Heritage and Mass Unemployment -- Documentary Modernism -- Radical Manhood in Waste Heritage -- Writing Women, Reading Men -- Conclusion: New Formations -- the Second World War and Beyond -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y
Summary Comrades and Critics is the first full-length study of Canada's 1930s literary left
Notes Print version record
Subject Canadian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Women authors, Canadian -- 20th century -- Political and social views
Socialism and literature -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
Right and left (Political science) in literature.
Modernism (Literature) -- Canada
Nineteen thirties.
Canadian literature
Modernism (Literature)
Nineteen thirties
Right and left (Political science) in literature
Socialism and literature
Canada
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442687707
1442687703