Proletarian literature

Proletarian literature

Proletarian literature refers to a literature tradition created by proletarian authors, or working-class writers. A proletarian author has several characteristics central ones being a working-class background, upbringing in a working class social milieu, and their influence in proletarian authors' writings.

Tim Hall defines proletarian literature as follows: "in the fullest sense (it) calls upon all working people and discontented intellectuals to associate directly—to organize against capitalism itself, to attack the problem of social class at its roots." [ [http://home.flash.net/~comvoice/StruggleEdit1604.html "Why 'Proletarian' Literature?"] , "Struggle" editorials, vol. 16, #4, Winter 2000–01.]

Proletarian authors were, and often are, autodidacts, or self-taught persons who have adopted a Marxist perspective on their writing.

A research tradition studying proletarian literature and proletarian authors among other themes, such as class and its current meanings in the capitalist countries, is working-class studies.

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Further reading

* Freeman, Joseph. [http://www.english.uiuc.edu/MAPS/poets/a_f/freeman/prolit.htm Introduction to "Proletarian Literature in the United States"] . Granville Hicks, et al., eds. New York: International Publishers, 1935.

* Hall, Tim. [http://home.flash.net/~comvoice/StruggleEdit1701.html "Proletarian Literature Past – Harbinger of the Future Class Struggle"] , "Struggle" editorial, vol. 17, #1, Summer 2001.

* 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)

* Tijerina, Luis Lázaro. [http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/view/5011/1/247 "The Writer and Proletarian Literature"] , "Political Affairs Magazine", 17 March, 2007.


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