The Literature of Extreme Poverty in the Great Depression recovers a mostly forgotten record of how the people who lived through the Depression understood its suffering in novels, stories, poems, and political cartoons. It brings to light a vast archive of literary and pictorial analogues to the famous documentary photographs that burned the Depression into American visual memory.
The Literature of Extreme Poverty in the Great Depression recovers a mostly forgotten record of how the people who lived through the Depression understood its suffering in novels, stories, poems, and political cartoons. It brings to light a vast archive of literary and pictorial analogues to the famous documentary photographs that burned the Depression into American visual memory.
Robert Dale Parker is the Frank Hodgins Professor of American Literature at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He has published two books on Faulkner and a book on Elizabeth Bishop as well as The Invention of Native American Literature, The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Changing Is Not Vanishing: A Collection of American Indian Poetry to 1930, and, from Oxford University Press, How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies.
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* 1. Introduction: The Poetics of the Stiff * 2. A Poetics of the Great Depression: Style and Aesthetics in Tom Kromer's Waiting for Nothing * 3. How to Make a Queer: The Erotics of Begging; or, Down and Out in the Great Depression * 4. A Collage of Breadlines and Restaurants: Waiting for Nothing and the Reinvention of Time * 5. Hungry a Long Time: Poverty and the Great Depression in the Early Poetry of Langston Hughes * 6. Life on Relief in the Short Fiction of Dorothy West and Martha Gellhorn * 7. Conclusion: Depression Poverty and American Literary Studies * Notes * Works Cited * Acknowledgments
* 1. Introduction: The Poetics of the Stiff * 2. A Poetics of the Great Depression: Style and Aesthetics in Tom Kromer's Waiting for Nothing * 3. How to Make a Queer: The Erotics of Begging; or, Down and Out in the Great Depression * 4. A Collage of Breadlines and Restaurants: Waiting for Nothing and the Reinvention of Time * 5. Hungry a Long Time: Poverty and the Great Depression in the Early Poetry of Langston Hughes * 6. Life on Relief in the Short Fiction of Dorothy West and Martha Gellhorn * 7. Conclusion: Depression Poverty and American Literary Studies * Notes * Works Cited * Acknowledgments
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