The Master's thesis questions the issue of separating fiction from non-fiction in essay "How I Became a Socialist" (1913) by Ivan Cankar (1876‒1918) and "Black Solidarity'' (1984) by African-American author Amiri Baraka (1934‒2014). To separate fiction from non-fiction in the two essays, we rely on the approaches offered by cultural materialism. This approach traces class struggle in literature and contextualizes it based on the dynamic between the base and superstructure. The term "cultural materialism" was coined in 1977 by British theoretician and writer Raymond Williams (1921‒1988) in his capital work Marxism and Literature (1977). To better understand the teleology of fiction and non-fiction elements in the two essays, we use the chapter "The Multitude of Writing '' from Williams' book Marxism and Literature.
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