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VOICES OF PERSUASION
POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION IN 1930S AMERICA |
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Michael E. Staub, Albert Gelpi, Ross Posnock |
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ISBN 10: |
0521453909 |
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9780521453905 |
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Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
27 May, 1994 |
Series: |
Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture v. 78 |
Pages: |
192 |
Description: |
Staub recasts 1930s cultural history, demonstrating the seldom-discussed multicultural diversity of those genres so characteristic of the period: ethnography, documentary, journalism and polemical fiction. |
Synopsis: |
In this innovative study, Michael Staub recasts 1930s cultural history by analysing those genres so characteristic of the Depression era: Staub argues that several thirties writers - precisely because of their encounters with disinherited peoples - anticipated the dilemmas poststructuralist theory would identify; an awareness of the ambiguousness of historical truth, and the impossibility of representing reality without being complicit in its distortion. New interpretations of such canonised authors as James Agee, John Dos Passos, Zora Neale Hurston, John G. Neihardt and Tille Olsen are coupled with critical discussions of previously little-known works of ethnography, journalism, oral history and polemical fiction. This book will interest all who are concerned with the problematic relationship between representation and social reality and their mutual inextricability. |
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notes, bibliography |
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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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