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Call Home the Heart: A Novel of the Thirties
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Call Home the Heart: A Novel of the Thirties Paperback - 2002

by Fielding Burke; Introduction by Alice Kessler-Harris; Introduction by Paul Lauter

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Call Home the Heart is the story of Ishma Waycaster, an impoverished woman who, pregnant for the third time and discouraged by the endless struggle of rural life in the Great Smoky Mountains, flees a mill town, where she becomes involved in union organizing and a bloody strike (modeled on the Gastonia strike of 1929). Burke provides a remarkably honest portrayal of the conflicts between Ishma's sexual and emotional needs and her intellectual and political loyalties, and of the racial issues raised by the strike.

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  • Title Call Home the Heart: A Novel of the Thirties
  • Author Fielding Burke; Introduction by Alice Kessler-Harris; Introduction by Paul Lauter
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Later Reprint 2
  • Pages 462
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Feminist Press, New York
  • Publication date January 2002
  • ISBN 9781558614000 / 1558614001
  • Weight 1.44 lbs (0.65 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 1.2 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 3.05 cm)
  • Category Fiction - Historical
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Olive Tilford Dargan, also known through her pseudonym Fielding Burke, was born to a rural family in Litchfield, Kentucky and later became a poet, playwright and novelist. Much of her writing focused on women and working class issues of the Southern Appalachian region. She was a feminist and a socialist, providing one of the few strong southern female voices to the proletarian fiction of the 1930s. As an active participant in the proletarian movement, Dargan wrote a series of radical feminist/socialist novels on the Gastonia mill strikes. Dargan was one of the only proletarian writers to provide a voice of the female working class experience.

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Call Home The Heart: A Novel of the Thirties
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Call Home The Heart: A Novel of the Thirties

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