Roraback, Eileen Mary, The Defense of the self: Autobiographical Responses of American Intellectuals to the McCarthy Era (Paul Robeson, W.E.B.Du Bois, Lillian Hellman, Jessica Mitford), Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Iowa, American Studies., 1999, 299

Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Iowa, American Studies.

«This dissertation examines the autobiographies of Paul Robeson, W.E.B. Du Bois, Lillian Hellman, and Jessica Mitford. Using a Gramscian analytical framework it argues that each autobiographer presents a defense of self in response to McCarthy era discourses which delegitimated their experiences and labeled them "un-American."... All of the autobiographers were intellectuals, as defined by the theorist Antonio Gramsci, involved in radical politics in the 1930s and 1940s... The dissertation argues that in this sense, the autobiographies represent the site of cultural and ideological struggle for intellectuals as posited by Gramscian analyses...».

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