Real folks
Subtitle: race and genre in the Great Depression
By: Sonnet Retman
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780822349259; 9780822349440
Subjects: Literature and folklore; African American authors; Folklore; History and criticism; American literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "A combination madhouse, burlesque show and Coney Island" : the color question in George Schuyler's Black no more; title: "Inanimate hideosities" : the burlesque of racial capitalism in Nathanael West's A cool million; title: "The last American frontier" : mapping the folk in the Federal Writers' Project's Florida : a guide to the southernmost state; title: "Ah gives myself de privilege to go" : navigating the field and the folk in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and men; title: "Am I laughing"? : burlesque incongruities of genre, gender, and audience in Preston Sturges's Sullivan's travels; title: Afterpiece : the Coen brothers' Ol'-timey blues in O brother, where art thou?