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American Modernism and Depression Documentary (Paperback)
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American Modernism and Depression Documentary surveys the uneven
terrain of American modernity through the lens of the documentary
book. Jeff Allred argues that photo-texts of the 1930s stage a set
of mediations between rural hinterlands and metropolitan areas,
between elite producers of culture and the "forgotten man" of
Depression-era culture, between a myth of consensual national unity
and various competing ethnic and regional collectivities. In light
of the complexity this entails, this study takes issue with a
critical tradition that has painted the documentary expression" of
the 1930s as a simplistic and propagandistic divergence from
literary modernism. Allred situates these texts, and the
"documentary modernism" they represent, as a central part of
American modernism and response to American modernity, as he looks
at the impoverished sharecroppers depcited in the groundbreaking
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, the disenfranchised African Americans
in Richard Wright's polemical 12 Million Black Voices, and the
experiments in Depression-era photography found in Life magazine.
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