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Record Nr.

UNINA9910476843303321

Autore

Retman Sonnet H. <1966->

Titolo

Real folks [[electronic resource] ] : race and genre in the Great Depression / / Sonnet Retman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, NC, : Duke University Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-30380-9

9786613303806

0-8223-9389-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/0052

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based on print version record

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"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?

Sommario/riassunto

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.