Yonnondio: From the Thirties Less than a century after the Emancipation Proclamation declared African Americans free, Tillie Olsen views the American working class as enslaved by poverty. ... Yonnondio: From The Thirties speaks, in narrative form, to the inability of the silenced poor to individually rise above the overwhelming obstacles of a capitalistic society and suggest collective efforts as an attempt to remedy this ill of capitalism. Yonnondio is set in the twenties; however, Tillie Olsen describes this book as "a novel of the 1930's" because this prose is a forum to add...

• Word Count: 917
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate