Table of Contents

Introduction Revolutionary Symbolism: American Depression-Era Leftist Literature Chapter One Identity and Ideology in Robert Cantwell's The Land of Plenty Chapter Two Disguised Theology of the Master-Wizard:Critical and Scientific Marxism in Depression-Era Literary CriticismChapter ThreeI was not a character in a novel: Fictionalizing the Self in Agnes Smedley's Daughter of EarthChapter Four Standardized:Stereotypes of the Depression in the Thirties Novels of West and SteinbeckChapter Five The Artist's Dialectic: Race Authenticity in the Thirties Novels of Richard WrightConclusion The Power of Negative Thinking

About the Author

Andrew Yerkes is an adjunct professor of English at the University of St. Thomas. He has taught and researched the recurrence of historiographic patterns of apocalypse and millennium in American fiction, and he published on this topic in Routledge's Encyclopedia of Millennialismand Millennial Movements (2002).