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clogic-190915	Wang, Huei-ju	Becoming “Migrant John”: John Steinbeck and His Migrants and His (Un)conscious Turn to Marx	2018	31	.pdf	application/pdf	12940	567	60	In literature, John Steinbeck also made a prominent use of the figure of the migrant mother, deploying it to both represent the struggle and plight of the migrant farm workers in Depression-era California and to contain revolutionary class struggles in favor of social reforms espoused by the New Deal.3 In a literary career that was built on the representation of the migrant farm labor in the 1930s, earning him the nickname of “Migrant John” from the migrant laborers, Steinbeck demonstrated his ingenious use of materials – the body of the migrant worker, especially that of the migrant mother – to depict and dissect class conflicts and class struggle between capital and migrant labor during the Great Depression. For an assessment of Steinbeck’s literary “greatness” during the depression years, see John Steinbeck: The Years of Greatness, 1936-1939, edited by Tetsumaro Hayashi.	cache/clogic-190915.pdf	txt/clogic-190915.txt