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Retman Sonnet H. <1966-> |
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Titolo |
Real folks [[electronic resource] ] : race and genre in the Great Depression / / Sonnet Retman |
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Durham, NC, : Duke University Press, 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-30380-9 |
9786613303806 |
0-8223-9389-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (338 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
Literature and folklore - United States - History - 20th century |
Folklore - United States - History - 20th century |
American literature - African American authors - History and criticism |
United States History 1933-1945 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based on print version record |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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"A combination madhouse, burlesque show and Coney Island" : the color question in George Schuyler's Black no more -- "Inanimate hideosities" : the burlesque of racial capitalism in Nathanael West's A cool million -- "The last American frontier" : mapping the folk in the Federal Writers' Project's Florida : a guide to the southernmost state -- "Ah gives myself de privilege to go" : navigating the field and the folk in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and men -- "Am I laughing"? : burlesque incongruities of genre, gender, and audience in Preston Sturges's Sullivan's travels -- Afterpiece : the Coen brothers' Ol'-timey blues in O brother, where art thou? |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Real Folks examines the construction of the folk in Depression-era U.S. politics and culture, as well as the hybrid forms of documentary and satire that critiqued the populist fixation on folk authenticity. |
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