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In Archives of Labor Lori Merish establishes working-class women as significant actors within literary culture, dramatically redrawing the map of nineteenth-century US literary and cultural history. Delving into previously unexplored archives of working-class women's literature-from autobiographies, pamphlet novels, and theatrical melodrama to seduction tales and labor periodicals-Merish recovers working-class women's vital presence as writers and readers in the antebellum era. Her reading of texts by a diverse collection of factory workers, seamstresses, domestic workers, and prostitutes boldly challenges the purportedly masculine character of class dissent during this era. Whether addressing portrayals of white New England factory girls, fictional accounts of African American domestic workers, or the first-person narratives of Mexican women working in the missions of Mexican California, Merish unsettles the traditional association of whiteness with the working class to document forms of cross-racial class identification and solidarity. In so doing, she restores the tradition of working women's class protest and dissent, shows how race and gender are central to class identity, and traces the ways working women understood themselves and were understood as workers and class subjects.Product Identifiers
PublisherDuke University Press
ISBN-139780822363224
eBay Product ID (ePID)233615972
Product Key Features
Book TitleArchives of Labor: Working-Class Women and Literary Culture in the Antebellum United States
AuthorLori Merish
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterature, Zoology, History
Publication Year2017
TypeTextbook
Number of Pages328 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height229mm
Item Width152mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorLori Merish
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States