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Dust bowl migrants in the American imagination

Title
Dust bowl migrants in the American imagination / Charles J. Shindo.
Author
Shindo, Charles J.
Publication
Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c1997.

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Description
xv, 252 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Rural America
Uniform Title
Rural America (Lawrence, Kan.)
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-246) and index.
Contents
Displaced voices : the migrants as American victims -- The ideals of American democracy : New Deal reformers and the migrant -- The passion and the humanity : Dorothea Lange and Migrant worker -- The perfectibility of man : John Steinbeck and The grapes of wrath -- Photo essay: Introducing Americans to America : the image of the migrants -- The world-old desire to tell a story : John Ford and The grapes of wrath -- The things that you fight for : Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl ballads -- The uses of American culture : folklorists and the migrant -- The ghost of Tom Joad : the persistence of Dust Bowl representations.
Call Number
ILH 97-5299
ISBN
0700608109 (alk. paper)
LCCN
96032301
OCLC
35178594
Author
Shindo, Charles J.
Title
Dust bowl migrants in the American imagination / Charles J. Shindo.
Imprint
Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c1997.
Series
Rural America
Rural America (Lawrence, Kan.)
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-246) and index.
Research Call Number
ILH 97-5299
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