scholarly journals Working-Class Literature and/or Proletarian Literature : Polemics of the Russian and Soviet Literary Left

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katerina Clark ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Proletarian Literature ◽  
Working Class Literature ◽  
Literary Left

scholarly journals The Proletarian Literature Movement: Japan’s First Encounter with Working-Class Literature

2020 ◽  
pp. 115-137
Author(s):  
Mats Karlsson
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Work Force ◽  
Japanese Women ◽  
Proletarian Literature ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Study Circles ◽  
Industrial Work ◽  
Working Class Literature ◽  
Cultural Movement ◽  
Factory Floor

This essay explores Japanese working-class literature as it developed within the wider context of the so-called Proletarian Cultural Movement that was in operation for about ten years, peaking in the late 1920s. While tracing the origins of the initiative to create a “proletarian” literature in Japan to Marxist study circles at universities, it discusses the movement’s quest to foster “true” worker writers based on the factory floor. Next, the chapter highlights literary works by female writers who were encouraged at the time by international communism’s focus on the Japanese women issue due to their high inclusion in the industrial work force. Finally, the chapter discusses the legacy and continuing relevance of Kobayashi Takiji’s The Crab Cannery Ship, the flagship of working-class literature in Japan. Throughout, the essay endeavors to paint a vivid picture of writer activists within the movement.

A forgotten piece of working‐class literature: Gustav Lyser's satire of the Hewitt hearing of 1878

Labor History ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-140
Author(s):  
Heinz Ickstadt ◽  
Hartmut Keil
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Working Class Literature

The Industrial Muse: A Study of Nineteenth-Century British Working-Class Literature

1977 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 363
Author(s):  
Laurence Lerner ◽  
Martha Vicinus
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Working Class Literature

The Industrial Muse. A Study of Nineteenth-Century Working-Class Literature.

1976 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 163
Author(s):  
Asa Briggs ◽  
Martha Vicinus
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Working Class Literature
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