Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Pessimistic progressives
  • Nature and apocalypse: Okies and the New Deal in California
  • A tale of two camps
  • Matter out of place
  • Who stole the folk's music?
  • The WPA and the Southern country poor: life histories or case studies?
  • The Southern life histories: the class factor
  • The Dust Bowl on film
  • Nature and naturalism in Steinbeck's labor fiction
  • Conclusion: Erosion and retrieval: poor white identity and the limits of literature.