Reading southern poverty between the wars, 1918-1939
By: edited by Richard Godden and Martin Crawford.
Contributors: Godden, Richard, 1946-; Crawford, Martin, 1948-
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780820327082
Subjects: Poverty -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.; Poverty in literature.; Southern States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Three agrarianisms and the idea of a South without poverty / Ted Ownby; title: Dissonant encounters : FSA photographers and the southern underclass, 1935-1943 / Stuart Kidd; title: Not readily visualized by industrial workers and urban dwellers : published images of rural women from the FSA collection, 1935-1937 / Siobhan Davis; title: Murder, "convict flogging affairs," and debt peonage: the roaring twenties in the American South / Vivien M.L. Miller; title: "Ain't worth a damn for nothin'" : the New Deal and child labor in southern textiles / Clive Webb; title: From Memphis to Bandung : the political uses of hunger in Richard Wright's Black boy / Andrew Warnes; title: "All manner of defeated, shiftless, shifty, pathetic, and interesting good people" : autobiographical encounters with southern poverty / John C. Inscoe; title: Creating "Nate Shaw" : the making and remaking of All God's dangers / James C. Giesen; title: A southern writer and class war in the mountains : Grace Lumpkin's To make my bread / Richard Gray; title: Rural poverty and the heroics of farming : Elizabeth Madox Roberts's The time of man and Ellen Glasgow's Barren ground / Peter Nicolaisen; title: Trashing modernism : Erskine Caldwell on the southern poor / John T. Matthews; title: Marginalization and mobility : segregation and the representation of southern poor whites / Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr.