"You Factory Folks who Sing this Rhyme Will Surely Understand": Culture, Ideology, and Action in the Gastonia Novels of Myra Page, Grace Lumpkin, and Olive DarganTaylor & Francis, 2006 - 235 First published in 2007. In early 1929, two organizers for the American Communist Party's recently established National Textile Worker's Union (NTWU) journeyed south by motorcycle to investigate the potential for beginning organizing work among textile workers in the Piedmont region. One of these organizers, Fred Beal, decided to try his luck in Gastonia, North Carolina, which had been described to him as key to organizing the South In a chain of events whose rapidity and magnitude took Beal by surprise, workers at the Loray mill became embroiled in a Communist-led strike that would eventually focus national and even international attention on Gastonia. This book focuses on Myra Page, Grace Lumpkin, and Olive Darganthe three authors of Gastonia novels who penetrate most incisively into the working-class experience beneath historical and political accounts of the strike and its larger context. |
Spis treści
Beats 100 Speeches and 9 Sermons Throwed In | 1 |
WorkingClass Culture and Resistance in Myra Pages Gathering Storm A Storm A Story of the Black Belt | 19 |
Cultural Reprentations in To Make My Bread1 | 49 |
Preand PostRevolutionary Culture in Olive Tilford Dargans Call Home the Heart and A Stone Came Rolling | 117 |
Notes | 177 |
Works Cited | 225 |
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Back cover | 237 |
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aesthetic Alice Stone Blackwell American Appalachian artistic Baker ballad Basil believes Bonnie's bosses Bread Britt Call Home capitalist characters Communist context Cotton Mill create culture Daily Worker Dargan depicts Derry earlier economic Emma experience exploitation factory family's farm fiction fight Gastonia novels Gastonia strike Gathering Storm Grace Lumpkin Granpap Home the Heart Hugo’s hymns ideological industrial Ishma John Hardy John Stevens John's Kirk labor later Les Misérables literary Little Mary Phagan lives Lumpkin Marge's Marxist Mary Phagan McClure mill village mill workers Misérables Miss Dolly mountain narrative North Carolina oppression organizer outlaw Page's poem political potential poverty preacher Prometheus radical readers reality religious rural Sacco and Vanzetti Serena shows singing social socialist song South Southern spirituals Stone Came Rolling story strikers struggle suggests tells textile workers texts tion tradition Uncle Uncle Ben union Valjean verse Wiggins working-class writing Young Marge