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Harvest SongStories and EssaysMeridel Le SueurThis collection of short stories, essays and reportage allows the reader to fully appreciate Le Sueur’s shorter writings, beginning in 1926. Particularly important are seven stories and memoirs written during the blacklist period for Masses and Mainstream magazine, between 1947 and 1958. Better than any other Communist writer of the period, Le Sueur captures the hysteria of the times, both within the radical movement besieged by McCarthyism and that of the general public under threat of nuclear annihilation. “Meridel Le Sueur’s work stands, urgent and unique, at that ‘bloody crossroads’ where politics and culture meet. Modernist literary experimentalism engages a distinctively feminist conception of how people defend themselves and organize for change.”—Paul Lauter, Trinity College 5½ x 8½ inches • 244 pages • ISBN 0-931122-60-0 • $12.95 |
Meridel Le Sueur
Meridel Le Sueur was born to socialist parents in 1900 and lived to be 96, spending most of her life in the middle west. She has been recognized as one of the leading proletarian short story writers of the 1930s, and her work includes short stories, novels, children’s books, poetry, and nonfiction. Blacklisted during the McCarthy Period, Le Sueur’s contribution to American literature faded for nearly 30 years, gaining renewed prominence in the mid-1970s.  |