Voices of Persuasion

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Michael E. Staub
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.06.2009
• EAN: 9780521111942
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11194-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies