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Archives of Labor - Working-Class Women and Literary Culture in the Antebellum United States (Paperback)
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Archives of Labor - Working-Class Women and Literary Culture in the Antebellum United States (Paperback)
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In Archives of Labor Lori Merish establishes working-class women as
significant actors within literary culture, dramatically redrawing
the map of nineteenth-century US literary and cultural history.
Delving into previously unexplored archives of working-class
women's literature-from autobiographies, pamphlet novels, and
theatrical melodrama to seduction tales and labor
periodicals-Merish recovers working-class women's vital presence as
writers and readers in the antebellum era. Her reading of texts by
a diverse collection of factory workers, seamstresses, domestic
workers, and prostitutes boldly challenges the purportedly
masculine character of class dissent during this era. Whether
addressing portrayals of white New England "factory girls,"
fictional accounts of African American domestic workers, or the
first-person narratives of Mexican women working in the missions of
Mexican California, Merish unsettles the traditional association of
whiteness with the working class to document forms of cross-racial
class identification and solidarity. In so doing, she restores the
tradition of working women's class protest and dissent, shows how
race and gender are central to class identity, and traces the ways
working women understood themselves and were understood as workers
and class subjects.
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