Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 21:32:08 -0800
To: marxism-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu
From: djones-AT-uclink.berkeley.edu (rakesh bhandari)
Subject: Re: Literature; Barbara Foley?


Charlotte mentioned

>Barbara Foley
>Radical Representations:Politics and Form in U.S. Proletarian Fiction,
>1929-1941
>Duke University Press; London and Durham; 1993

As a race man (ph.d. candidate, Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley), I of course
jumped ahead to the relevant chapter on race and nationalism in this book
(some two years ago).  

I remember the discussion as quite exciting, as it showed that there was
real debate and complex argument, not a single pedantic line among the New
Masses crowd.  

I didn't read the theoretical chapters, but this book is bursting with
interesting historical research.  No doubt, Foley is very engaged in sharp
theoretical debates as she interprets the literature.  It seemed to me at
the time as a major intervention in the history of American Marxist
literary criticism.  

When I get (make the) time, I would like to come back to this. 

I'll be reading in if others take it up.

Rakesh





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