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Real folks- [electronic resource : e-book] : race and genre in the Great Depression
Real folks- [electronic resource : e-book] : race and genre in the Great Depression
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- ISBN
- 9781478090861 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN
- 1478090863 (electronic bk.)
- 저자명
- Retman, Sonnet H, , 1966-
- 서명/저자
- Real folks - [electronic resource : e-book] : race and genre in the Great Depression / Sonnet Retman.
- 판사항
- [Open access version].
- 형태사항
- 1 online resource.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 초록/해제
- 요약 : During the Great Depression, people from across the political spectrum sought to ground American identity in the rural know-how of "the folk." At the same time, certain writers, filmmakers, and intellectuals combined documentary and satire into a hybrid genre that revealed the folk as an anxious product of corporate capitalism, rather than an antidote to commercial culture. This book analyzes the invention of the folk as figures of authenticity in the political culture of the 1930s, as well as the critiques that emerged in response. Diverse artists and intellectuals-including the novelists George Schuyler and Nathanael West, the filmmaker Preston Sturges, and the anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston-illuminated the fabrication and exploitation of folk authenticity in New Deal and commercial narratives. They skewered the racist populisms that prevented interracial working-class solidarity, prophesized the patriotic function of the folk for the nation-state in crisis, and made their readers and viewers feel self-conscious about the desire for authenticity.
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- Mode of access : World Wide Web
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- chimsin:568138