03707oam 2200793I 450 991077892000332120230802004628.01-136-63227-11-283-44271-X97866134427100-203-80322-11-136-63228-X10.4324/9780203803226 (CKB)2550000000088767(EBL)958066(OCoLC)798531803(SSID)ssj0000600900(PQKBManifestationID)11355449(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000600900(PQKBWorkID)10601669(PQKB)11784509(MiAaPQ)EBC958066(Au-PeEL)EBL958066(CaPaEBR)ebr10531801(CaONFJC)MIL344271(OCoLC)781628769(OCoLC)706022521(FINmELB)ELB139079(EXLCZ)99255000000008876720180706d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNature, class, and New Deal literature the country poor in the Great Depression /Stephen FenderNew York :Routledge,2012.1 online resource (234 p.)Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ;17Description based upon print version of record.1-138-54802-2 0-415-89678-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-219) and index.Introduction: Pessimistic progressives -- Nature and apocalypse: Okies and the New Deal in California -- A tale of two camps -- Matter out of place -- Who stole the folk's music? -- The WPA and the Southern country poor: life histories or case studies? -- The Southern life histories: the class factor -- The Dust Bowl on film -- Nature and naturalism in Steinbeck's labor fiction -- Conclusion: Erosion and retrieval: poor white identity and the limits of literature.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. <Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ;17.American literature20th centuryHistory and criticismRural poor in literatureDepressions in literatureNational characteristics, American, in literatureLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryNew Deal, 1933-1939, in motion picturesNature in literatureAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.Rural poor in literature.Depressions in literature.National characteristics, American, in literature.Literature and societyHistoryNew Deal, 1933-1939, in motion pictures.Nature in literature.810.9/0052Fender Stephen.193317MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778920003321Nature, class, and New Deal literature3737147UNINA