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From Tobacco Road to Route 66 : the southern poor white in fiction
- Title
- From Tobacco Road to Route 66 : the southern poor white in fiction / Sylvia Jenkins Cook.
- Author
- Cook, Sylvia Jenkins, 1943-
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1976.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PS261.C57 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 208 pages; 23 cm
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- Geschichte 1920-1940
- American fiction > Southern States > History and criticism
- American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Working class white people in literature
- Poor in literature
- American fiction
- Literature
- Poor in literature
- Working class white people in literature
- Armut Motiv
- Literatur
- Southern States > In literature
- Southern States
- USA > Südstaaten
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 197-204.
- Contents
- The development of the poor white tradition -- The image in the twentieth century -- Faulkner's celebration of the poor white paradox -- Caldwell's politics of the grotesque -- The Gastonia strike and proletarian possibilities -- Poor whites, feminists, and Marxists -- Sex and consciousness among the poor whites -- Agee's Aesthetic on an unimagined existence -- Steinbeck's retreat into artfulness -- The transformation of the poor white in the Depression.
- ISBN
- 0807812641
- 9780807812648
- LCCN
- 75035822
- OCLC
- ocm01858475
- 1858475
- SCSB-215568
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library