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Himes, Chester
Chester Bomar Himes was among the foremost Afro-American authors, especially in terms of the way he wrote about racism in America in all its guises. He caused a great deal of attention as an author of crime fiction in France in the 1950s. However, his stories about the lives of blacks and Latinos living in urban ghettos were not beginning to be discussed seriously in the United States until...
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Arbetarlitteratur
By: Tony Samuelsson
”Om Martin Koch (1882-1940) och Gustav Hedenvind-Eriksson (1880-1967) en gång kallades arbetartraditionens grindstolpar, eftersom de var tidigt ute med att skriva om arbetarklassens liv, så har Moa Martinson (1890-1964) och Ivar Lo-Johansson (1901-1990) anlagt själva uppfarten till det hus som vi kan kalla arbetarlitteraturen. --- ”