Barbara Foley here focuses on the relatively neglected genre of documentary fiction: novels that are continually near the borderline between factual and fictive discourse. She links the development of the genre over three centuries to the evolution of capitalism, but her analyses of literary texts depart significantly from those of most current...
Barbara Foley is a Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies at Rutgers University¿Newark. She is the author of Radical Representations: Politics and Form in U.S. Proletarian Fiction, 1929¿1941, Spectres of 1919: Class and Nation in the Making of the New Negro, Wrestling with the Left: the Making of Ralph Ellison¿s Invisible Man, and Jean Toomer: Race, Repression, and Revolution.
