Better Red

Better Red contributes to a revisioning of the '30s as well as to efforts to promote working-class writing as a legitimate category of literary analysis. This interdisciplinary study - employing Bakhtinian theory, material-feminist criticism, practical criticism, biography, oral history, and US history - addresses the complex intersection of American feminist and the Communist left, demonstrating that Olsen and Le Sueur anticipated many of the concerns of `second wave' feminists.