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Unfinished Stories presents a parallel study of the lives and
narrative photography of Hansel Mieth (1909-1998) and Marion Palfi
(1907-1978). Mieth was the second woman staff photographer employed
by Life magazine. Palfi'sphoto of Henry Street Settlement kids was
the first cover of Ebony magazine. German born emigres who never
met, they constructed remarkably similar photo narratives of unseen
America. They were visual storytellers, artists, and
citizen-photographers who do not fit easily into contemporary
categories of photojournalism or documentary photography. Great
risk-takers, they grasped the complexities inherent in representing
human beings as individuals, as part of an ethnic, racial or labor
group, and as citizens colonized in their own land. They may have
photographed the circumstances of alienation, but their themes
involved connection, human relationships, and solidarity.
Unfinished Stories offers a fresh and theoretically informed eye on
representational photography. It forges a place for Hansel Mieth
and Marion Palfi in the history of photography and in the history
of American race and class struggle.
America's workers have been singing, reciting, performing, telling
stories, writing, and publishing for more than three centuries.
Ranging from early colonial times to the present, American
Working-Class Literature presents more than 300 literary texts that
exemplify this tradition. It demonstrates how American working
people live, labor, struggle, express themselves, and give meaning
to their experiences both inside and outside of the workplace. The
only book of its kind, this groundbreaking anthology includes work
not only by the industrial proletariat but also by slaves and
unskilled workers, by those who work unpaid at home, and by workers
in contemporary service industries. As diverse in race, gender,
culture, and region as America's working class itself, the
selections represent a wide range of genres including fiction,
poetry, drama, memoir, oratory, journalism, letters, oral history,
and songs. Works by little-known or anonymous authors are included
alongside texts from such acclaimed writers as Frederick Douglass,
Upton Sinclair, Tillie Olsen, Philip Levine, Maxine Hong Kingston,
and Leslie Marmon Silko. A rich selection of contemporary writing
includes Martin Espada's poem "Alabanza" about the September 11,
2001, attack on the World Trade Center.
American Working-Class Literature is organized chronologically
into seven sections that highlight key historical and cultural
developments in working-class life. The book is enhanced by an
editors' introduction, section introductions, and individual head
notes for each selection that provide biographical and historical
context. A timeline of working-class history, rich illustrations,
sidebars, reading lists, and a bibliography ofcritical commentary
are also included. This unique volume is ideal for courses in
American literature, cultural and working-class studies, and labor
history.
This is a book about working-class identity, consciousness, and
self-determination. It offers an alternative to middle-class
assimiliation and working-class amnesia. The twenty-five
contributors use memory--both personal and collective--to show the
relationship between the uncertain economic rhythms of
working-class life and the possibilities for cultural and political
agency. Manual labor and intellectual work are connected in these
multicultural autobiographies of writers, educators, artists,
political activists, musicians, and photographers and in the
cultural work--the poems, stories, photographs, lectures,
music--they produce. Illustrated with family snapshots, this
collection--the first of its kind--includes the work of a female
machinist who is also a poet, a secretary who is also a writer, a
poet who worked on the assembly line, a musician who was also a
red-diaper baby, and an academic who is recovering the
working-class writing of her father. The consciousness that is
revealed in this book makes evident the value of class identity to
collective, democratic struggle. The contributors are Maggie
Anderson, Steve Cagan, Jim Daniels, Lennard Davis, Masani Alexis de
Veaux, Sue Doro, Julie Olsen Edwards, Carol Faulkner, Barbara Fox,
Laura Hapke, Florence Howe, David Joseph, Linda McCarriston, Wilma
Elizabeth McDaniel, Gregory Mantsios, M. Bella Mirabella, Joseph
Nassar, Tillie Olsen, Maxine Scates, Saul Slapikoff, Clarissa T.
Sligh, Carol Tarlen, Joann Maria Vasoncellos, Pat Wynne, and Janet
Zandy.
"Meridel Le Sueur, Barbara Smith, Nellie Wong, Judy Grahn, and
Sharon Doubiago are among the writers who range through speeches,
songs, poetry, essays, and fiction in this moving anthology." --Ms.
Magazine "Powerful in their dailiness, and full of memory,
frustration, endurance, and occasionally a softer emotion, these
affecting selections deserve a wide audience." --Feminist Bookstore
News "The range of voices raised and experiences represented
throughout the book is expansive and liberating, as is the
inclusion of any number of unforgettable works by lesser-known
writers." --VLS "Ambitious, eclectic, historically wide-ranging. .
. . The multicultural (primarily American) contents range from
pieces by Agnes Smedley and Mother Jones to contemporary activist
storytellers such as Marge Piercy. . . . The authors . . . write
proudly and gratefully about the benefits of working-class life . .
. a brave anthology, a very welcome addition to the workbench, the
kitchen table, and the bookcase." --Women's Review of Books "Rich .
. . archival and popular." --Belles Lettres "Their voices . . .
form a chorus that speaks for the majority of women in the United
States. They are writers whose theme is the working-class woman,
and the ethnic, racial and geographic diversity of the
working-class experience." --San Francisco Examiner "Zandy's
anthology . . . helps us better understand who 'we' are and how
many of us have been missing from the stories our culture teaches
and learns." --The Literary Review "A powerful and uncompromising
collection of essays, stories, poems, and oral histories, and more,
reflecting the history and personal experiences of working-class
women in America." --Booklist "What diversity . . . The works
reveal a complexity of working-class experience intricately linked
like pieces in a giant jigsaw puzzle." --New Directions for Women
Janet Zandy is a professor of language and literature at the
Rochester Institute of Technology. She has published widely on
women's issues.
What are two hands worth? In linking forms of cultural expression
to labor, occupational injuries, and death, Hands: Physical Labor,
Class, and Cultural Work centers what is usually decentered--the
complex culture of working-class people. Janet Zandy begins by
examining the literal loss of lives to unsafe jobs and occupational
hazards. She asks critical and timely questions about worker
representation--who speaks for employees when the mills, mines,
factories, and even white-collar cubicles shut down. She presents
the voices of working class writers and artists, and discusses
their contribution to knowledge and culture. Zandy also illuminates
the relationship between contemporary poets and historical events
such as the Triangle fire, and argues for consideration of Ralph
Fasanella as a great narrative painter of the working class. Hands
concludes with an imaginative interpretation of how our complex
system of technology affects laboring bodies through various speed
zones of history, culture, and lived experience. This path-making
book reveals the flesh and bone beneath the abstractions of labor,
class, and culture. It is an essential contribution to the emerging
field of working-class studies, offering a hybrid model for
bridging communities and non-academic workers to scholars and
institutions of knowledge.
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