ID: 8430 -
Laura Coltelli
- Pisa
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: Text
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: Book
Extent
: 243 pp.
Identifier
: ISBN 0-931122-37-6 pbk
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Title
: I Hear Men Talking and Other Stories
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Date
: Issued
in/on
: 1984
Language
: English
Rights
: 1984 by Meridel LeSueur
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Place
: Midwest
Time
: 1930s
Description
: I Hear Men Talking: short novel; The Bird and The Horse stories of the early decades.
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Gender/Sexuality
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Internationalism/Transnationalism
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Identity
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family relationships
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communism
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politics
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motherhood
Query Subject+Keyword
: (Gender/Sexuality, family relationships)
Query Subject+Keyword
: (Internationalism/Transnationalism, communism)
Query Subject+Keyword
: (Class, politics)
Query Subject+Keyword
: (Identity, motherhood)
Comment
: I Hear Men Talking is an early novel written in 1933. It fuses LeSueur's memories from about 1912-17 during the Socialist movemente before World War I and the milk strikes and farm sales in Iowa in 1932-33, in which the protagonist experiences a sense of community, the sickness of a bourgeois world, thus replacing the ideal of individualism with the ideal of the group. Her vision in this novel and in the two short stories is one which brings about the ideals of social harmony, cohesiveness together with natural cicles of life found in earth fecundity and in women's bodies.