What is Proletarian literature?

Question

To answer # 3: How come US, and People Magazine become proletarian literature?
Are they even considered literature?

Answer 1

It is Lit that is based on the working class. Such as Animal Farm and 1984. Both by George Orwell. It talks about how the working class suffer, while the Bourgeoisie, business owners, prey upon us.

Answer 2

Proletarian Literature

Answer 3

Proletarian means, literally, the lowest class of wage earners, unskilled, indigent wage earners -- in other words, migrant workers, who travel from job to job such as the people who travel around the country to harvest crops. Proletarian literature could be either literature about them, eg. John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, or literature for them, which would probably include US, People Magazine, and any of the fan mags as none of these require a particularly high IQ or awareness of world events...
Hope this answers your question.

Answer 4

well here's the diffinition of the proletariat from wikipedia:

The proletariat (from Latin proles, offspring) is a term used to identify a lower social class; a member of such a class is proletarian. Originally it was identified as those people who had no wealth other than their sons; the term was initially used in a derogatory sense, until Karl Marx used it as a sociological term to refer to the working class.

So as far as Proletarian literature I would look into Karl Marx's writings such as the communist manifesto. Or something related to that