Document Type
Interview
Abstract
Barbara Clare Foley teaches in the English Department at Rutgers University-Newark Campus and has written extensively about literary radicalism, African American literature, Marxist theory, and the politics of the academy. Her 1993 study Radical Representation: Politics and Form in U.S. Proletarian Fiction 1929-1940, has exerted considerable influence on emerging scholars of left-wing literature. Her most recent books are Spectres of 1919: Class and Nation in the Making of the New Negro (2003) and Wrestling with Prometheus: Ralph Ellison, the Left, and the Making of "Invisible Man", her forthcoming work, which she discusses below. Foley is also a member of the MLA Radical Caucus and serves on the manuscript committee of Science and Society.
Repository Citation
Ramsey, Joseph G.. "Reading Forward' from the Left: An interview with Barbara Foley." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 8, no. 1, 2008, pp. 1–18. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol8/iss1/23