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Voices of Persuasion

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1994
ISBN
0521453909, 9780521453905
LCC
PS228.P6 S73 1994
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5032718 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Pages
190\190
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In this innovative study, Michael Staub recasts 1930s cultural history by analyzing those genres characteristic of the Depression era: Staub argues that several thirties writers were aware of the ambiguousness of historical truth, and the impossibility of representing reality without being complicitous in its distortion. New interpretations of such canonized authors as James Agee, John Dos Passos, Zora Neale Hurston, John G. Neihardt, and Tillie Olson are coupled with critical discussions of previously little-known works of ethnography, journalism, oral history and polemical fiction.

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