Voices of Persuasion

AvMichael E. Staub

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

Del 78 i serien Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

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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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Utgivningsdatum:2009-06-11
Mått:152 x 229 x 11 mm
Vikt:290 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521111942

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'In this readable and engaging book, Michael Staub offers a corrective to those cultural histories that have seen Depression-era literature as having failed both politically and aesthetically because of its didactic sentimentality and topical politicism. Reexamining a wide range of cultural productions - documentaries, ethnographies, journal writing, folklore, and fiction - and the collaborations that produced them, he significantly extends the scope of previous studies … In a bold and refreshing move, Staub redirects our attention from the literate powers of elite editors to the oral powers of 'marginalized' speakers. In Voices of Persuasion, the subaltern can and does speak, and Staub shows us how to listen.' Hertha D. Wong, University of California, Berkeley

Innehållsförteckning

Preface; 1. Spoken testimony, Unwritten History; 2. You won't hear it nicely John Dos Passos and James Agee; 3. Telling native American history John Neihardt, William Benson and Ruth Underhill; 4. Talking black, talking back Zora Neale Hurston; 5. Giving the people voice Tillie Olsen and the Communist Press; Notes; Bibliography.