Littafin Mutuwa

Littafin Matattu wani dogon labari ne na waka da Muriel Rukeyser ya rubuta, yana bayyana a cikin tarin ta US 1. An buga shi a cikin 1938, waƙar tana magana da bala'i na Hawks Nest Tunnel, wanda kuma aka sani da Bala'in Ramin Gauley, wanda galibi matalauta ne, ma'aikatan hakar ma'adinan ƙaura a Gauley Bridge, West Virginia sun yi sanadiyar mutuwar cutar da aka sani.Green, Chris (2010). The Social Life of Poetry: Appalachia, Race, and Radical Modernism. Palgrave Macmillan Press. pp. 172–173. ISBN 9780230610934

Tsawon wakoki ashirin, farawa da "Hanyar" kuma ta ƙare da "Littafin Matattu," Rukeyser ta ɗauki masu karatun ta tafiya zuwa bala'i. Waƙar ta gauraya kuma ta shiga tsakani cikin sheda na zamani da na gaskiya daga bala'i, layika daga tsohuwar rubutun Masarautar Littafin Matattu, tare da layin labarin Absalom na Littafi Mai-Tsarki.Dayton, Tim (2003). Muriel Rukeyser's The Book of the Dead. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. pp. 24–27, 47–50. ISBN 9780826220639. Taken waƙar ya fito ne daga rubutun Masari, tare da Rukeyser ta faɗi ko kuma ta yi nuni ga tsohon aikin a cikin waƙartaDayton, Tim (2003). Muriel Rukeyser's The Book of the Dead. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. pp. 24–27, 47–50. ISBN 9780826220639.. A matsayin wani ɓangare na binciken da ta ƙware don waƙar, Rukeyser ta ziyarci Gauley Bridge tare da Nancy Naumburg a 1936.Thurston, Michael (2006). Making Something Happen: American Political Poetry between the World Wars. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. pp. 172–173. ISBN 9780807849798.

Tun lokacin da aka buga shi a cikin 1938, Littafin Matattu ya taimaka wajen tabbatar da ita a matsayin mawallafi mai mahimmanci na karni na ashirin. Babban misali ne na al'adar 1930s da 1940 na al'adar rubuce-rubucen wakoki da wakoki, Lowney, John (2006). History, Memory, and the Literary Left: Modern American Poetry, 1935-1968. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. p. 37. ISBN 9781587295089. al'adar da masanin wakoki Mark Nowak ya bayyana a matsayin "hagu fiye da sassaucin ra'ayi." Eliot.Taylor 2010, p. 54

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