The Cotton-Pickers is a 1926 novel by B. Traven.
Plot
Gale is an itinerant who works jobs as a cotton picker, baker, cowboy, and oil rigger. He participates in a number of successive, spontaneous strikes without organized unions. He thinks of Guatemala and Argentina often.[1]
Publication
Vorwärts, the Social Democratic Party of Germany's newspaper, published a serialized version of The Cotton-Pickers as Die Baumwollpflücker between June 21 and July 2, 1925. Büchergilde Gutenberg published a modified version as a full-length book, Der Wobbly (The Wobbly).[2] Traven was influenced by the Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the World) in Mexico as he arrived in 1924.[1]
Eleanor Brockett translated the book into English for Robert Hale in 1956.[3]
References
Bibliography
- Hagemann, E. R. (1959). "A Checklist of the Work of B. Traven and the Critical Estimates and Biographical Essays on Him; together with a Brief Biography". The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. 53 (1): 37–67. doi:10.1086/pbsa.53.1.24299487. ISSN 0006-128X. JSTOR 24299487. S2CID 164163742.
- Kley, Martin (2012). "Mexico and Weimar's Anti-Authoritarian Socialist Imagination: Storytelling, Working, and 'Unworking' in B. Traven". Modern Language Studies. 41 (2): 10–35. ISSN 0047-7729. JSTOR 41445163.
- Schürer, Ernst; Jenkins, Philip, eds. (1987). "B. Traven and the Wobblies". B. Traven: Life and Work. Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 199–215. ISBN 978-0-271-00382-5.
- Treverton, Edward N. (1999). B. Traven: A Bibliography. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. pp. 31–. ISBN 978-0-8108-3610-5.
External links
- Full text at the Internet Archive
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