Driven to the field : sharecropping and Southern literature /
"By analyzing literary treatments of sharecropping in multiple genres of Southern literature, Driven to the Field reveals how the South progressed from slavery to civil rights, how this form of tenant farming continues to influence southern culture, and why labor exploitation defines Southern c...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2023.
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| Series: | American South series.
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| Summary: | "By analyzing literary treatments of sharecropping in multiple genres of Southern literature, Driven to the Field reveals how the South progressed from slavery to civil rights, how this form of tenant farming continues to influence southern culture, and why labor exploitation defines Southern culture"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 318 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813948645 0813948649 9780813948652 0813948657 |