Sonnet Retman

Real Folks

Race and Genre in the Great Depression

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2011
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9780822349259
• ISBN-10: 0822349256
• Artikelnr.: 33624078

Autorenporträt

Sonnet H. Retman

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part I: The Folklore of Racial Capitalism
1. "A Combination Madhouse, Burlesque Show and Coney Island": The Color
Question in George Schuyler's Black No More 33
2. "Inantimate Hideosities": The Burlesque of Racial Capitalism in
Nathanael West's A Cool Million 72
Part II: Performing the Folk
3. "The Last American Frontier": Mapping the Folk in The Federal Writers'
Project's Florida: A Guide to the Southernmost State 113
4. "Ah Gives Myself de Privilege to Go": Navigating the Field and the Folk
in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men 152
Part III: Populist Masquerade
5. "Am I Laughing?": Burlesque Incongruities of Genre, Gender, and Audience
in Preston Sturges's Sullivan's Travels 191
Afterpiece: The Coen Brothers' Ol'-Timey Blues in O Brother, Where Art
Thou? 240
Notes 251
Bibliography 287
Index 311