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Nature, Class, and New Deal Literature - The Country Poor in the Great Depression (Paperback)
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Nature, Class, and New Deal Literature - The Country Poor in the Great Depression (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
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Working through close rhetorical analysis of everything from
fiction and journalism to documents and documentaries, this book
looks at how popular memory favors the country Depression over the
economic crisis in the nation's cities and factories. Over eighty
years after it happened, the Depression still lives on in iconic
images of country poor whites - in the novels of John Steinbeck,
the photographs of Dorothea Lange and Arthur Rothstein, the
documentary films of Pare Lorenz and the thousands of
share-croppers' life histories as taken down by the workers of the
Federal Writers' Project. Like the politicians and bureaucrats who
accomplished the New Deal's radical reforms in banking, social
security and labor union law, the artists, novelists and other
writers who supported or even worked for the New Deal were
idealists, well to the left of center in their politics. Yet when
it came to hard times on the American farm, something turned them
into unwitting reactionaries. Though they brought these broken
lives of the country poor to the notice and sympathy of the public,
they also worked unconsciously to undermine their condition. How
and why? Fender shows how the answer lies in clues overlooked until
now, hidden in their writing -- their journalism and novels, the
"life histories" they ghost wrote for their poor white clients, the
bureaucratic communications through which they administered these
cultural programs, even in the documentary photographs and movies,
with their insistent captions and voice-overs. This book is a study
of literary examples from in and around the country Depression, and
the myths on which they drew.
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