Real folks : race and genre in the Great Depression / / Sonnet Retman.
Real Folks examines the construction of the folk in Depression-era U.S. politics and culture, as well as the hybrid forms of documentary and satire that critiqued the populist fixation on folk authenticity.
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (338 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based on print version record |
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Table of Contents:
- "A combination madhouse, burlesque show and Coney Island" : the color question in George Schuyler's Black no more
- "Inanimate hideosities" : the burlesque of racial capitalism in Nathanael West's A cool million
- "The last American frontier" : mapping the folk in the Federal Writers' Project's Florida : a guide to the southernmost state
- "Ah gives myself de privilege to go" : navigating the field and the folk in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and men
- "Am I laughing"? : burlesque incongruities of genre, gender, and audience in Preston Sturges's Sullivan's travels
- Afterpiece : the Coen brothers' Ol'-timey blues in O brother, where art thou?