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

• Autore: Retman Sonnet H. <1966->
• Pubblicazione: Durham, NC, : Duke University Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (338 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/0052
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: United States History 1933-1945
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Real folks
• ISBN: 1-283-30380-9; 9786613303806; 0-8223-9389-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910476843303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: e-Duke books scholarly collection.