Progressive Heritage The Evolution of a Politically Radical Literary Tradition in Canada

Most critics and literary historians have ignored Marxist- inspired creative literature in Canada, or dismissed it as an ephemeral phenomenon of the 1930s. Research reveals, however, that from the 1920s onward Canadian creative writers influenced by Marxist ideas have produced a quantitatively substantial and artistically significant body of poetry, drama, fiction, and non- fiction. This book traces historically and evaluates critically this tradition, with particular emphasis on writers who were associated with, or sympathetic to, the Communist Party of Canada. After two chapters surveying the work of anti-capitalist writers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the book concentrates on the development of Marxist-inspired writing from the 1920s to the end of the twentieth century.Doyle, James is the author of 'Progressive Heritage The Evolution of a Politically Radical Literary Tradition in Canada' with ISBN 9780889203976 and ISBN 0889203970.