Call Home The Heart: A Novel of the Thirties

Fielding Burke

Call Home The Heart: A Novel of the Thirties
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Feminist Press at The City University of New York
Country
United States
Published
10 May 2002
Pages
462
ISBN
9781558614000

Call Home The Heart: A Novel of the Thirties

Fielding Burke

Call Home the Heart is the story of Ishma Waycaster, an impoverished woman who, pregnant for the third time and discouraged by the endless struggle of rural life in the Great Smoky Mountains, flees a mill town, where she becomes involved in union organizing and a bloody strike (modeled on the Gastonia strike of 1929). Burke provides a remarkably honest portrayal of the conflicts between Ishma’s sexual and emotional needs and her intellectual and political loyalties, and of the racial issues raised by the strike.

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