Abstract:
This paper examines the contributions of women theatre artists and their negotiations with the male Communist Party apparatus in the creation, performance and subsequent banning of the 1933 play Eight Men Speak.
This article “Authorship, Left Modernism, and Communist Power in Eight Men Speak: A Reflection” originally appeared in Spectres of Modernism. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 209 (Summer 2011): 11-30.
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