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The social life of poetry : Appalachia, race, and radical modernism / Chris Green.
Van Pelt Library PS323.5 .G735 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Green, Chris, 1968-
- Series:
- Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- American poetry.
- American poetry--Appalachian Region--History and criticism.
- European Americans--Race identity.
- European Americans.
- White people--Race identity--United States.
- White people.
- White people--Race identity.
- United States.
- Cultural pluralism--United States--History.
- Cultural pluralism.
- History.
- United States--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- Modernism (Literature)--United States.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Appalachian Region.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 279 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- Summary:
- From Jewish publishers to Appalachian poets, Green's cultural study reveals the role of "mountain whites" in American racial history. Part One (1880-1935) explores the networks that created American pluralism, revealing Appalachia's essential role in shaping America's understanding of African Americans, Anglos, Jews, Southerners, and immigrants. Drawing upon archival research and deft close readings of poems. Part Two (1934-1946) delves into the inner-workings of literary history and shows how diverse alliances used four books of poetry about Appalachia to change America's notions of race, region, and puralism.
- Contents:
- Appalachia, race, and pluralism
- Evangelizing an Anglo equality (1883-1908)
- New York City's cultural pluralists (1906-1930)
- Reactionary regionalism versus critical quarterlies (1925-1945)
- The social life of poetry
- Racing the land with Jesse Stuart's Man with a bull tongue plow (1934)
- "Authentic folk feeling" in James Still's Hounds on the mountain (1937)
- Rebinding "The book of the dead" into Muriel Rukeyser's U.S. 1 (1938)
- The tight rope of democracy and Don West's Clods of southern earth (1946).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230610934
- 0230610935
- OCLC:
- 226357062
- Online:
- Publisher description
- Contributor biographical information
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