Call Home the Heart
Author | : Fielding Burke |
Publisher | : Feminist Press |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 2002-02-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781558614000 |
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 Call Home the Heart (1932) is the story of Ishma Waycaster, a poor woman who, pregnant for the third time and discouraged by the endless struggle of rural life in the Great Smoky Mountains, flees to a mill town, where she becomes involved in union organizing and a bloody strike (modeled on the Gastonia strike of 1929). Burke (1869-1968) 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.