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Author Battat, Erin Royston, author

Title Ain't got no home : America's great migrations and the making of an interracial left / Erin Royston Battat
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (233 pages)
Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Race, Sex, and the Hobo; 2. An Okie Is Me; 3. Steel Mill Blues; 4. Beyond the Migrant Mother; 5. Wartime Shipyard; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary "Most scholarship on the mass migrations of African Americans and southern whites during and after the Great Depression treats those migrations as separate phenomena, strictly divided along racial lines. In this engaging interdisciplinary work, Erin Royston Battat argues instead that we should understand these Depression-era migrations as interconnected responses to the capitalist collapse and political upheavals of the early twentieth century. During the 1930s and 1940s, Battat shows, writers and artists of both races created migration stories specifically to bolster the black-white Left alliance. Defying rigid critical categories, Battat considers a wide variety of media, including literary classics by John Steinbeck and Ann Petry, "lost" novels by Sanora Babb and William Attaway, hobo novellas, images of migrant women by Dorothea Lange and Elizabeth Catlett, popular songs, and histories and ethnographies of migrant shipyard workers. This vibrant rereading and recovering of the period's literary and visual culture expands our understanding of the migration narrative by uniting the political and aesthetic goals of the black and white literary Left and illuminating the striking interrelationship between American populism and civil rights."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Migration, Internal -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Migration, Internal -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Migration, Internal, in literature.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Populism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Right and left (Political science) -- United States -- History -- 20th century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
American literature
Literature and society
Migration, Internal
Migration, Internal, in literature
Migration, Internal -- Political aspects
Populism
Right and left (Political science)
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013035598
ISBN 9781469614038
1469614030
9781469614045
1469614049