Voices of Persuasion - Politics of Representation in 1930s America

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.

List of contents

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Michael E. Staub
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.08.2012
• EAN: 9780521453905
• ISBN: 978-0-521-45390-5
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 437 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies