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1 online resource (234 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature |
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Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature.
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| Contents |
Front Cover; Nature, Class, and New Deal Literature; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Pessimistic Progressives; Part I: Climate: The Myth of the Dust Bowl; 1. Nature and Apocalypse: Okies and the New Deal in California; 2. A Tale of Two Camps; 3. Matter out of Place; 4. Who Stole the Folk's Music?; Part II: Geography: Social Stasis in the Southern Life Histories; 5. The WPA and the Southern Country Poor: Life Histories or Case Studies?; 6. The Southern Life Histories: The Class Factor; Part III: Madonnas and Christ Figures |
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7. The Dust Bowl on Film8. Nature and Naturalism in Steinbeck's Labor Fiction; Conclusion: Erosion and Retrieval:Poor White Identity and the Limits of Literature; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Working through close rhetorical analysis of everything from fiction and journalism to documents and documentaries, this book looks at how popular memory favors the country Depression over the economic crisis in the nation's cities and factories. Over eighty years after it happened, the Depression still lives on in iconic images of country poor whites -- in the novels of John Steinbeck, the photographs of Dorothea Lange and Arthur Rothstein, the documentary films of Pare Lorenz and the thousands of share-croppers' life histories as taken down by the workers of the Federal Writers' Project. Lik |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203803226 |
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0203803221 |
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