Writing Red: An Anthology of American Women Writers, 1930-1940 - Paperback

by Charlotte Nekola (Editor), Paula Rabinowitz (Editor), Toni Morrison (Foreword by)

This comprehensive collection of fiction, poetry, and reportage by revolutionary women of the 1930s lays to rest the charge that feminism disappeared after 1920. Among the thirty-six writers are Muriel Rukeyser, Margaret Walker, Josephine Herbst, Tillie Olsen, Tess Slesinger, Agnes Smedley, and Meridel Le Sueur. Other voices may be new to readers, including many working-class black and white women. The topics range from sexuality and family relationships to race, class, and patriarchy to party politics. Toni Morrison writes that the anthology is "peopled with questioning, caring, socially committed women writers."

Author Biography

Charlotte Nekola is a professor of English at William Paterson University, and is the author of a memoir, Dream House.