| Description |
xvi, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Three agrarianisms and the idea of a South without poverty / Ted Ownby -- Dissonant encounters : FSA photographers and the southern underclass, 1935-1943 / Stuart Kidd -- Not readily visualized by industrial workers and urban dwellers : published images of rural women from the FSA collection, 1935-1937 / Siobhan Davis -- Murder, "convict flogging affairs," and debt peonage: the roaring twenties in the American South / Vivien M.L. Miller -- "Ain't worth a damn for nothin'" : the New Deal and child labor in southern textiles / Clive Webb -- From Memphis to Bandung : the political uses of hunger in Richard Wright's Black boy / Andrew Warnes -- "All manner of defeated, shiftless, shifty, pathetic, and interesting good people" : autobiographical encounters with southern poverty / John C. Inscoe -- Creating "Nate Shaw" : the making and remaking of All God's dangers / James C. Giesen -- A southern writer and class war in the mountains : Grace Lumpkin's To make my bread / Richard Gray -- Rural poverty and the heroics of farming : Elizabeth Madox Roberts's The time of man and Ellen Glasgow's Barren ground / Peter Nicolaisen -- Trashing modernism : Erskine Caldwell on the southern poor / John T. Matthews -- Marginalization and mobility : segregation and the representation of southern poor whites / Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr. |
| Subject |
Poverty -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
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Poverty. |
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Southern States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Southern States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-
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Economic conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
1918- |
| Subject |
Poverty in literature.
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Poverty in literature. |
| Added Author |
Godden, Richard, 1946-
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Crawford, Martin, 1948-
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| ISBN |
0820327085 cloth alkaline paper |
| Standard No. |
9780820327082 |
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