03055oam 2200673Ia 450 991047684330332120111027151913.01-283-30380-997866133038060-8223-9389-110.1515/9780822393894(CKB)2550000000056079(EBL)1173032(OCoLC)757828727(SSID)ssj0000540649(PQKBManifestationID)11925911(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000540649(PQKBWorkID)10585843(PQKB)10420403757828727(MiAaPQ)EBC1173032(OCoLC)1140710476(MdBmJHUP)muse79449(DE-B1597)552076(DE-B1597)9780822393894(EXLCZ)99255000000005607920111020d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrReal folks[electronic resource] race and genre in the Great Depression /Sonnet RetmanDurham, NC Duke University Press20111 online resource (338 p.)Description based on print version record0-8223-4944-2 0-8223-4925-6 Includes bibliographical references and index."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?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.e-Duke books scholarly collection.American literature20th centuryHistory and criticismLiterature and folkloreUnited StatesHistory20th centuryFolkloreUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismUnited StatesHistory1933-1945American literatureHistory and criticism.Literature and folkloreHistoryFolkloreHistoryAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.810.9/0052Retman Sonnet H.1966-953425NcDNcDBOOK9910476843303321Real folks2155586UNINA