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Proletarian literature refers to a literature tradition created by proletarian authors, or working-class writers. A proletarian author has several characteristics central ones being a working-class background, upbringing in a working class social milieu, and their influence in proletarian authors' writings.

Tim Hall defines proletarian literature as follows: "in the fullest sense (it) calls upon all working people and discontented intellectuals to associate directly—to organize against capitalism itself, to attack the problem of social class at its roots." ^[1]

Proletarian authors were, and often are, autodidacts, or self-taught persons who have adopted a Marxist perspective on their writing.

A research tradition studying proletarian literature and proletarian authors among other themes, such as class and its current meanings in the capitalist countries, is working-class studies.

Notes

1. ^ "Why 'Proletarian' Literature?", Struggle editorials, vol. 16, #4, Winter 2000–01.

Further reading

• Freeman, Joseph. Introduction to Proletarian Literature in the United States. Granville Hicks, et al., eds. New York: International Publishers, 1935.

• Hall, Tim. "Proletarian Literature Past – Harbinger of the Future Class Struggle", Struggle editorial, vol. 17, #1, Summer 2001.

• Steinberg, Mark. Proletarian Imagination: Self, Modernity, and the Sacred in Russia, 1910-1925. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. (On proletarian literature in late-imperial and early Soviet Russia)

• Tijerina, Luis Lázaro. "The Writer and Proletarian Literature", Political Affairs Magazine, 17 March 2007.

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