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Contrary to previous studies of Tillie Olsen's writing, Tillie
Olsen and the Dialectical Philosophy of Proletarian Literature
analyzes the impact of one of the most important philosophies of
the last century, dialectical materialism, on the form and content
of Olsen's fiction. By revealing the unconceptualized dialectics of
Olsen's work and its appreciation by scholars and casual readers,
this study achieves a dialectical synthesis that incorporates and
extends the insights of and about Olsen in terms of dialectical
materialism. By foregrounding Olsen's dialectical approach, it
explains and largely resolves apparent contradictions between her
Marxism and feminism; her depictions of class, race, and gender;
the literature of her earlier and later periods; and her use of
realist and modernist literary forms and techniques. Consequently,
this project makes a case for the importance of Olsen's Marxist
education during the "Red Decade" of the 1930s and within the U.S.
proletarian literary movement.
Contrary to previous studies of Tillie Olsen's writing, Tillie
Olsen and the Dialectical Philosophy of Proletarian Literature
analyzes the impact of one of the most important philosophies of
the last century, dialectical materialism, on the form and content
of Olsen's fiction. By revealing the unconceptualized dialectics of
Olsen's work and its appreciation by scholars and casual readers,
this study achieves a dialectical synthesis that incorporates and
extends the insights of and about Olsen in terms of dialectical
materialism. By foregrounding Olsen's dialectical approach, it
explains and largely resolves apparent contradictions between her
Marxism and feminism; her depictions of class, race, and gender;
the literature of her earlier and later periods; and her use of
realist and modernist literary forms and techniques. Consequently,
this project makes a case for the importance of Olsen's Marxist
education during the "Red Decade" of the 1930s and within the U.S.
proletarian literary movement.
During and after the Harlem Renaissance, two intellectual forces
--nationalism and Marxism--clashed and changed the future of
African American writing. Current literary thinking says that
writers with nationalist leanings wrote the most relevant fiction,
poetry, and prose of the day. Nationalism, Marxism, and African
American Literature Between the Wars: A New Pandora's Box
challenges that notion. It boldly proposes that such writers as A.
Philip Randolph, Langston Hughes, and Richard Wright, who often saw
the world in terms of class struggle, did more to advance the
anti-racist politics of African American letters than writers such
as Countee Cullen, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Alain Locke, and Marcus
Garvey, who remained enmeshed in nationalist and racialist
discourse. Evaluating the great impact of Marxism and nationalism
on black authors from the Harlem Renaissance and the Depression
era, Anthony Dawahare argues that the spread of nationalist
ideologies and movements between the world wars did guide
legitimate political desires of black writers for a world without
racism. But the nationalist channels of political and cultural
resistance did not address the capitalist foundation of modern
racial discrimination. During the period known as the ""Red
Decade"" (1929-1941), black writers developed some of the sharpest
critiques of the capitalist world and thus anticipated contemporary
scholarship on the intellectual and political hazards of
nationalism for the working class. As it examines the progression
of the Great Depression, the book focuses on the shift of black
writers to the Communist Left, including analyses of the
Communists' position on the ""Negro Question,"" the radical poetry
of Langston Hughes, and the writings of Richard Wright.
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