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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Retman, Sonnet H., 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Wirtschaftskrise.
Motiv.
Amerikanisches Englisch.
Literatur.
Volkskultur > Motiv
Literatur
Depression > Wirtschaft
Literature and folklore.
Folklore.
American literature > African American authors.
American literature.
Folklore > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Litterature et folklore > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Litterature americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Folklore > United States > History > 20th century.
Literature and folklore > United States > History > 20th century.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
USA
United States.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1933-1945.
United States > History > 1933-1945.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "A combination madhouse, burlesque show and Coney Island" : the color question in George Schuyler's Black no more
  • "Inanimate hideosities" : the burlesque of racial capitalism in Nathanael West's A cool million
  • "The last American frontier" : mapping the folk in the Federal Writers' Project's Florida : a guide to the southernmost state
  • "Ah gives myself de privilege to go" : navigating the field and the folk in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and men
  • "Am I laughing"? : burlesque incongruities of genre, gender, and audience in Preston Sturges's Sullivan's travels
  • Afterpiece : the Coen brothers' Ol'-timey blues in O brother, where art thou?

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