"I Saw and Felt the Class Lines": Class Divides, Forced Sterilization, and Literary Form in Meridel Le Sueur's The Girl.
Published In: Modern Fiction Studies, 2024, v. 70, n. 3. P. 456 1 of 3
Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3
Authored By: Hubbs, Jolene 3 of 3
Abstract
This essay examines how Meridel Le Sueur's novel The Girl censures Depression-era eugenic sterilizations via both the story it tells and the forms it employs. Arguing that the text works to expose the imbrication of capitalist production and sexual reproduction the essay explores how the narrative attends to labor on two fronts: labor as work and labor as childbirth. It also considers how and why Le Sueur eschewed influential leftist writer and editor Mike Gold's precepts for proletarian realism and instead pioneered what I term a running style. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Additional Information
- Source:Modern Fiction Studies. 2024/09, Vol. 70, Issue 3, p456
- Document Type:Article
- Subject Area:Law
- Publication Date:2024
- ISSN:0026-7724
- DOI:10.1353/mfs.2024.a942197
- Accession Number:180785055
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