Real folks : race and genre in the Great Depression /

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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Retman, Sonnet H., 1966-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011.
Series:	e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Subjects:	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. United States > History > 1933-1945. Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique. Littérature et folklore > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle. Folklore > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle. États-Unis > Histoire > 1933-1945. LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General. American literature American literature > African American authors Folklore Literature and folklore United States 1900-1999 Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History
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Table of 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?