Real Folks

Race and Genre in the Great Depression

Автор: Sonnet H. Retman

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Duke University Press

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During the Great Depression, people from across the political spectrum sought to ground American ide...

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Автор

Sonnet H. Retman

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2011

страници

336

EAN

9780822349440

ISBN

0822349442

Enbook ID

04939324

Издател

Duke University Press

Теглоt

468

Размери

232 x 155 x 27

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During the Great Depression, people from across the political spectrum sought to ground American identity in the rural know-how of "the folk." At the same time, certain writers, filmmakers, and intellectuals combined documentary and satire into a hybrid genre that revealed the folk as an anxious product of corporate capitalism, rather than an antidote to commercial culture. In Real Folks, Sonnet H. Retman analyzes the invention of the folk as figures of authenticity in the political culture of the 1930s, as well as the critiques that emerged in response. Diverse artists and intellectualsoincluding the novelists George Schuyler and Nathanael West, the filmmaker Preston Sturges, and the anthropologist Zora Neale Hurstonoilluminated the fabrication and exploitation of folk authenticity in New Deal and commercial narratives. They skewered the racist populisms that prevented interracial working-class solidarity, prophesized the patriotic function of the folk for the nation-state in crisis, and made their readers and viewers feel self-conscious about the desire for authenticity. By illuminating the subversive satirical energy of the 1930s, Retman identifies a rich cultural tradition overshadowed until now by the scholarly focus on Depression-era social realism.

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