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- Title
Brigman Award Winner: The Intuition of the Revolutionary Artist in The Iron Heel.
- Authors
Garcia, Thomas Ray
- Abstract
The article critiques the 1908 novel "The Iron Heel" by American author Jack London, and it mentions how the late Russian politician Leon Trotsky praised London for displaying the intuition of a revolutionary artist. According to the article, "The Iron Heel" deals with a dystopian world that was destroyed by capitalism and rescued by socialism. The merging of socialist propaganda and an alternative future in the novel is assessed.
- Subjects
IRON Heel, The (Book); LONDON, Jack, 1876-1916; UNITED States revolutionaries; INTUITION; TROTSKY, Leon, 1879-1940; SOCIALISM in literature; DYSTOPIAS in literature; SOCIALIST propaganda
- Publication
Journal of Popular Culture, 2019, Vol 52, Issue 1, p199
- ISSN
1540-5931
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1111/jpcu.12761