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Bezig met laden... And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: James Agee, Walker Evans, and the Rise and Fall of Cotton in the South (1989)door Dale Maharidge, Michael Williamson (Fotograaf)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Amazing book, a must-read if you have even one ancestor that worked The Land. The author traces the descendants of the white cotton tenant farmers first profiled by James Agee during the Depression, to see whether their lots are better than tenant lives during the glory of King Cotton. The author explains where hillbillies come from; and that poor flatlanders identify three kinds of poverty: the Lord's poor, the Devil's poor, and people who couldn't be anything different than poor. Individual stories are balanced with historical views. At the conclusion, the author sharply speaks his own mind about greed in America. ( ) 2838. And Their Children After Them, by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson (read 17 Feb 1996) (Pulitzer Nonfiction prize for 1990) I read this on 17 Feb 1996 and said to myself: This book examines the people Agee wrote about in 1936, and their children. When Agee wrote about them they were tenant cotton farmers--now there is no cotton raised in the area! The names of the towns are changed. but it is, I believe, in southern Alabama. It is a poignant book, and describes real poverty still, but there is less than in 1936. And maybe less "community." This is a book Newt Gingrich and the crazy House freshmen should read--people who are so intent that those who cannot make it on their own should not make it. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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In And Their Children After Them, the writer/photographer team Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson return to the land and families captured in James Agee and Walker Evans's inimitable Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, extending the project of conscience and chronicling the traumatic decline of King Cotton. With this continuation of Agee and Evans's project, Maharidge and Williamson not only uncover some surprising historical secrets relating to the families and to Agee himself, but also effectively lay to rest Agee's fear that his work, from lack of reverence or resilience, would be but another offense to the humanity of its subjects. Williamson's ninety-part photo essay includes updates alongside Evans's classic originals. Maharidge and Williamson's work in And Their Children After Them was honored with the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction when it was first published in 1990. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)976.1History and Geography North America South Central U.S. AlabamaLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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