The Cotton-Pickers

The Cotton-Pickers

Author	B. Traven
Publication date	1926
Published in English	1956

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  [ de ] 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

1. Kley 2012, p. 16.
2. Kley 2012, p. 14.
3. Treverton 1999, p. 33.

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