Geremio is a proud bricklayer, emigrated from Italy and living on New York’s Lower East Side. He works on a job with his fellow immigrants and tries to keep them safe as their site boss cuts corners on building materials… Read More ›
Proletarian Novel
Analysis of Henry Roth’s Call It Sleep
Henry Roth’s autobiographical first novel Call It Sleep (1934) has come to be recognized as one of the most poignant and honest depictions of immigrant, specifically Jewish immigrant, life in all of American literature. Its account of living conditions in… Read More ›
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