Tillie Olsen: Working-Class Mother, Proletarian Writer and Feminist Forerunner

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  • Ronald Paul University of Gothenburg

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58221/mosp.v110i2.7870

Keywords:

Tillie Olsen, Proletarian Literature, Working-Class Motherhood, Feminism

Abstract

In this article, I want to trace the interwoven pattern of relationships between Tillie Olsen’s life as a working-class mother, her radical political commitment as a socialist and feminist and her own fictional and non-fictional writing. I want to show that despite the fragmentary nature of her literary production, there is a tangible and essential link between her personal experience, her politics and her aesthetics as a modern proletarian writer. It is, I would claim, this combination of gender, class and radical consciousness that enabled her to produce some of the most remarkably unorthodox fictional narratives of working-class women’s lives in the whole of twentieth-century American literature.

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Published

2016-12-01

How to Cite

Paul, R. (2016). Tillie Olsen: Working-Class Mother, Proletarian Writer and Feminist Forerunner. Moderna Språk, 110(2), 87–104. https://doi.org/10.58221/mosp.v110i2.7870

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