Name: A Class of Its Own
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A Class of Its Own

Re-Envisioning American Labor Fiction

Edited By: Laura Hapke, Lisa A. Kirby

£39.99

A Class of Its Own positions American social protest authors in a scholarly, student-centered context. Scholars explore what makes a text “working class” and how class studies empower teachers. Discusses authors like Zora Neale Hurston and Stephen Crane.

A Class of Its Own positions important and rediscovered American social protest authors within both a scholarly and student-centered context. The volume draws on the…

A Class of Its Own positions important and rediscovered American social protest authors within both a scholarly and student-centered context. The volume draws on the expertise and pedagogy of established and younger scholars who move gracefully from theories of what makes a text “working class” to how studies of class empower college teachers and courses. Among the authors discussed in the volume’s essays and prominent in the book’s syllabi section are Zora Neale Hurston, Stephen Crane, Agnes Smedley, and Ana Castillo.

Laura Hapke teaches at New York City College of Technology of the City University of New York. She has published widely in American/labor/cultural studies. Her most recent book is Labor’s Canvas: American Working-Class History and the WPA Art of the 1930s.

Lisa A. Kirby is an Assistant Professor of English at North Carolina Wesleyan College. Her areas of specialization include working-class literature, women’s studies, and 20th-century American literature. Her work has appeared recently in Philip Roth Studies, Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and Academic Exchange Quarterly.

Renny Christopher, Rose DeAngelis, William Dow, Robert Evans, Sondra Guttman, Laura Hapke, Christie Launius, Christie Launius, Julia Stein, Eric Sterling, Eric Sterling, Jonathan Wright, Lisa A. Kirby