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Informationen zum Autor Aaron Barlow , PhD, is associate professor of English at New York City College of Technology (CUNY). Klappentext Through a diversity of primary source resources that include works by politicians and literary figures, book reviews, and interviews, this book enables student readers to better understand literature of the Great Depression in context through original documents. Oklahoma drought refugees seeking livelihood in California, rural white Mississippians, and African American migrants making new lives in Chicago all represented the dramatic transitions across the spectrum of American life during the Great Depression. These vastly different groups of Americans still shared common experiences of desperation and poverty during the 1930s. This book focuses on literary works by three Depression-era authors-William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, and Richard Wright-and supplies dozens of primary source documents that serve to illuminate the harsh realities of life in the 1930s and enable students to better appreciate key pieces in American literature from the Great Depression era. The Depression Era: A Historical Exploration of Literature gives readers historical context for multiple works of American literature about the Great Depression through a wide range of features, including chronologies, essays explaining key events, and primary document excerpts as well as support materials that include activities, lesson plans, discussion questions, topics for further research, and suggested readings. The book's coverage includes William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying (1930), John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men (1937), The Grapes of Wrath (1939), and Richard Wright's Native Son (1940). Inhaltsverzeichnis Series Foreword, Introduction to the Depression Era, Chronology of the Depression Era, 1 As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner, 1930), Synopsis of As I Lay Dying : "Following the Path in Single File," Historical Background, About William Faulkner, Why We Read As I Lay Dying , Historical Explorations of As I Lay Dying , Documenting As I Lay Dying , Southern Culture, Document: From "On Leaving the South," Howard Mumford Jones, 1931, Document: From "Regionalism: Cult or Culture?," B. A. Botkin, 1936, Document: From "A Memoir: Growing Up Poor and White in the South," Vernon Johnson, 1994, The Writer in the South, Document: From "The Literary Landscape," Herschel Brickell, 1932, Document: From "Wherefore This Southern Fiction?," Benjamin T. Spencer, 1939, Faulkner and His Influence, Document: From "William Faulkner at Home," Adwin Wigfall Green, 1932, Document: From The Paris Review Interview with William Faulkner, 1956, American Writers, Document: From Literature and the American College , Irving Babbitt, 1908, Document: From "A Paris Letter," Ernest Hemingway, 1934, Document: From "New Techniques in the Novel," John T. Frederick, 1935, American Culture in the World, Document: From A Comedian Sees the World, Charlie Chaplin, 1932, Document: From "Society and Personality," Albert Einstein, 1935, Document: From Give Me My Own God, Aimee Semple McPherson, 1936, Sex and Alcohol, Document: From "Booze," A Sermon by Billy Sunday, 1916, Document: From What Every Girl Should Know , Margaret H. Sanger, 1922, Document: From The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, 1938, Suggested Readings, 2 Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck, 1937), Synopsis of Of Mice and Men : "A Path through the Willows," Historical Background, About John Steinbeck, Why We Read Of Mice and Men , Historical Explorations of Of Mice and Men , Documenting Of Mice and Men , The West, Document: From "Social Forces in American History," Fr...
