In this innovative study, Michael Staub recasts 1930s cultural
history by analysing those genres so characteristic of the
Depression era: Staub argues that several thirties writers -
precisely because of their encounters with disinherited peoples -
anticipated the dilemmas poststructuralist theory would identify;
an awareness of the ambiguousness of historical truth, and the
impossibility of representing reality without being complicit in
its distortion. New interpretations of such canonised authors as
James Agee, John Dos Passos, Zora Neale Hurston, John G. Neihardt
and Tille Olsen are coupled with critical discussions of previously
little-known works of ethnography, journalism, oral history and
polemical fiction. This book will interest all who are concerned
with the problematic relationship between representation and social
reality and their mutual inextricability.
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