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Real Folks : Race and Genre in the Great Depression /
During the Great Depression, people from across the political spectrum sought to ground American identity in the rural know-how of "the folk." At the same time, certain writers, filmmakers, and intellectuals combined documentary and satire into a hybrid genre that revealed the folk as an a...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2011]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: The folklore of racial capitalism
- Chapter 1. ''A Combination Madhouse, Burlesque Show and Coney Island'': The Color Question in George Schuyler's Black No More
- Chapter 2. ''Inanimate Hideosities'': The Burlesque of Racial Capitalism in Nathanael West's A Cool Million
- Part II: Performing the folk
- Chapter 3. ''The Last American Frontier'': Mapping the Folk in the Federal Writers' Project's Florida: A Guide to the Southernmost State
- Chapter 4. ''Ah Gives Myself de Privilege to Go'': Navigating the Field and the Folk in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men
- Part III: Populist masquerade
- Chapter 5. ''Am I Laughing?'': Burlesque Incongruities of Genre, Gender, and Audience in Preston Sturges's Sullivan's Travels
- Afterpiece
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index