Working Class Fiction
Volume 37, Number 1
November-December 2015
Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers.
Eric Miles Williamson’s Introduction to Focus: “The Fiction of the Workers”
Joseph D. Haske’s “American Strays”
J.D. Smith’s “Welcome to the Jungle”
Tom Williams’s “Dick and Buddy”
Larry Fondation’s “Fiction and Anger”
Daniel M. Mendoza’s “The Artistic Merit of Working-Class Fiction”
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