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The Writing of The Working Class

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Dr. Hoffman's Reccomendations:

  • George Orwell: Road to Wiggan Pier and Down and Out in Paris and London
  • Raymond Carver
  • Dorothy Allison
  • Studs Terkel: Working
  • George Saunders
  • Daniel Orozco: Orientation
  • Phillip Levine: What Work Is
  • Donald Ray Pollock: Knockemstiff (especially)
  • Bonnie Jo Campbell: American Salvage (especially)
  • Charles Yu
  • Lucia Berlin: A Manual for Cleaning Women
  • Jenny Bhatt: Each of Us Killers
  • Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah: Friday Black

    • Link to Ethel Carrie Holdsworth's This Slavery

    Amanda Arnold, "The Forgotten History of American Working Class Literature"

    Paul Lauter, "Working Class Women's Literature: An Introduction to Study"

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