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Real folks : race and genre in the Great Depression / Sonnet Retman.
LIBRA PS228.F64 R486 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Retman, Sonnet H., 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Literature and folklore--United States--History--20th century.
- Literature and folklore.
- Folklore--United States--History--20th century.
- Folklore.
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature--African American authors.
- History.
- United States--History--1933-1945.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2011.
- Contents:
- "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?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822349259
- 0822349256
- 9780822349440
- 0822349442
- OCLC:
- 700406673
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