Subjectivity in the American Protest Novel [Hardcover]

In the first major study of the twentieth-century American protest novel, Drake examines a group of authors who self-consciously exploited the revolutionary potential of the novel,?transforming?literary conventions concerning art and politics, readers and characters.Protest Literature in the U.S.: Determinism, Double Consciousness, and the Construction of Subjectivity Rape, Repression, and Remainder in Wright's Early Novels: Toward a Theory of African-American Trauma 'Women on the Go': Double Consciousness, Domesticity, and Street Culture in Ann Petry's Fiction 'You Make Your Children Sick': Dirt, Domesticity, and Working-Class Female Identity in Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio and Sarah Wright's This Child's Gonna LiveKIMBERLY S. DRAKE?Director of the Writing Program and Visiting Associate Professor at Scripps College, USA.