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Lavelle, John F. Blue Collar, Theoretically: a post-Marxist Approach to Working Class Literature. McFarland, 2012. 279p bibl index afp; ISBN 9780786448852 pbk. Reviewed in 2012jul CHOICE.
Lavelle (Florida Institute of Technology) challenges the predominant influence of Marxist theory within working-class studies. By drawing on work of theo
Lavelle, John F. Blue Collar, Theoretically: a post-Marxist Approach to Working Class Literature. McFarland, 2012. 279p bibl index afp; ISBN 9780786448852 pbk. Reviewed in 2012jul CHOICE.
Lavelle (Florida Institute of Technology) challenges the predominant influence of Marxist theory within working-class studies. By drawing on work of theorists in alternative disciplines--anthropology, cognitive science, psychology, and sociology--he positions class in relation to status and signs of difference at the small-group level. He begins with the fundamentals: the limitations of Marxist theory to rigorously define terms central to the discipline and to engage alternative theories. Lavelle builds his argument through an examination and critique of texts pivotal to working-class studies, in particular to working-class literature. He is methodical in his critique of the problematics of the discourse itself, the positive and negative contributions of established theories by leading figures in the field, and the contradictions and inadequacies of identifying a working-class literary canon. In the final three chapters, the author offers a revision to current practice--one that draws on Bourdieu's and Foucault's post-Marxist theories of class, employs postmodern tenets for working-class readings of any text, and demonstrates a post-Marxist, working-class reading of Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students through faculty. -- K. A. Welsch, Clarion University of Pennsylvania
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Literary texts are artifacts of their time and ideologies. This book collection explores the working class in American literature from the colonial to the contemporary period through a critical lens which addresses the real problems of approaching class through economics. Significantly, this book moves the analysis of working-class liter
Literary texts are artifacts of their time and ideologies. This book collection explores the working class in American literature from the colonial to the contemporary period through a critical lens which addresses the real problems of approaching class through economics. Significantly, this book moves the analysis of working-class literature away from the Marxist focus on the relationship between class and the means of production and applies an innovative concept of class based on the sociological studies of humans and society first championed by Max Weber. Of primary concern is the construction of class separation through the concept of in-grouping/out grouping. This book builds upon the theories established in John F. Lavelle’s Blue Collar, Theoretically: A Post-Marxist Approach to Working Class Literature (McFarland, 2011) and puts them into practice by examining a diverse set of texts that reveal the complexity of class relations in American society.
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Introduction by David LaBounty
Serving Saturday Night by R.T. Castleberry
A Woman Walked Into The Bar
by Linda Heuring
Bravas 8 Is Not A Space Station
by Diggory Dunn
Phoenix Rising by John Lavelle
Interlude by Sue Mayfield Geiger
Cantina Conmen by Emma Sullivan
Boondocks by Jo-Anne Rosen
The Best Thing That Happens Is I Never See You He
Introduction by David LaBounty
Serving Saturday Night by R.T. Castleberry
A Woman Walked Into The Bar
by Linda Heuring
Bravas 8 Is Not A Space Station
by Diggory Dunn
Phoenix Rising by John Lavelle
Interlude by Sue Mayfield Geiger
Cantina Conmen by Emma Sullivan
Boondocks by Jo-Anne Rosen
The Best Thing That Happens Is I Never See You Here Again by Dave Barrett
The Furtive Men Perform Nightly At The Wretched Street Bar by J. J. Steinfeld
Matriarchal Bar Meeting by Elliot Slater
Conversation Piece by Keith Scales
That Touch Of Drink by Joe Dinnen
A Night Just Like Any Other by Bradford
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5 JOHN LAVELLE Dragon Flies
36 PATRICK DACEY 30 at Night
47 STEPHANIE J. WATERMAN The Scribe (winner of the Allen and Nirelle Galson Prize for Fiction)
66 ALICE K. BOATWRIGHT Dreams of a Runner
73 SHELLEY ETTINGER The Typist'sWidow
101 EMILY WOOD Rules of the Lake
122 E.R. BAXTER III The
stone canoe SPRING 2009
NUMBER 3 CONTENTS FICTION
5 JOHN LAVELLE Dragon Flies
36 PATRICK DACEY 30 at Night
47 STEPHANIE J. WATERMAN The Scribe (winner of the Allen and Nirelle Galson Prize for Fiction)
66 ALICE K. BOATWRIGHT Dreams of a Runner
73 SHELLEY ETTINGER The Typist'sWidow
101 EMILY WOOD Rules of the Lake
122 E.R. BAXTER III The Last Rider
129 JANET McNALLY Nice Story, If You Can Write It
143 GEORGE HOVIS Strays
211 PETER CONNERS Members
292 E. SHANDER BAWDEN Rise and Fall
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