From Tobacco Road to Route 66 The Southern Poor White in Fiction |
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Author:
| Cook, Sylvia Jenkins |
ISBN: | 978-0-8078-7329-8 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2012 |
Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $50.00 |
Book Description:
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In the early nineteenth century, the southern poor white had a reputation for comic vulgarity and absurd violence; postbellum writers saw him as a quaint peasant; the 1920s transformed him into a revolutionary proletarian. Of the literary treatments discussed, Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath emerges as a skilful compromise of documentary accuracy and political daring. Originally published in 1976.
In the early nineteenth century, the southern poor white had a reputation for comic vulgarity and absurd violence; postbellum writers saw him as a quaint peasant; the 1920s transformed him into a revolutionary proletarian. Of the literary treatments discussed, Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath emerges as a skilful compromise of documentary accuracy and political daring. Originally published in 1976.