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Foley, Barbara
Barbara Foley received her Ph.D. from the University
of Chicago. Prof. Foley is currently a Professor of
English at Rutgers-Newark and a leading authority
on post-World War I American writers of the Left.
She is the author of Telling the Truth: The Theory
and Practice of Documentary Fiction (1986),
Radical Representations: Politics and Form in U.S.
Proletarian Fiction, 1929-1941 (1993), Spectres of
1919: Class and Nation in the Making of the New
Negro (2003), and numerous articles on Marxist theory,
African-American literature, and U.S. literary
radicalism. She is currently at work on two books,
both dealing with African-American writers and the
left: one on Jean Toomer and one on Ralph Ellison. |
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