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Thanks in part to the Ken Burns documentary The Dust Bowl, Sanora
Babb is perhaps best known today for her novel Whose Names Are
Unknown (2004), which might have been published in 1939 had her
publisher not thought the market too small for two Dust Bowl
novels, hers and Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Into the
twenty-first century, Babb wrote and published lyrical prose and
poetry that revealed her prescient ideas about gender, race, and
the environment. The essays collected in Unknown No More recover
and analyze her previously unrecognized contributions to American
letters. Editors Joanne Dearcopp and Christine Hill Smith have
assembled a group of distinguished scholars who, for the first time
in book-length form, explore the life and work of Sanora Babb. This
collection of pathbreaking essays addresses Babb's position within
the literature of the Great Plains and American West, her leftist
political odyssey as a card-carrying Communist who ultimately broke
with the Party, and her ecofeminist leanings as reflected in the
environmental themes she explored in her fiction and nonfiction.
With literary sensibilities reminiscent of Willa Cather, Ralph
Ellison, and Meridel LeSueur, Babb's work revealed gender-based,
environmental, and working-class injustices from the Depression era
to the late twentieth century. No longer unknown, Sanora Babb's
life and work form a prism through which the peril and promise of
twentieth-century America may be seen.
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The Nature of Joy (Paperback)
Alexander B. Platt, Joanne Dearcopp, With Joanne Dear Alexander B Platt
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