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Bezig met laden... Soul of a People: The WPA Writers' Project Uncovers Depression Americadoor David A. Taylor
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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. Focused more tightly than Mangione's book on stories of the Federal Writers Project figures who became widely known, careful to note the multiculturalism and pan-sexuality of Project participants, this is a more reverent but still detailed and useful telling of the story, organized regionally, like the American guide series on which the writers worked. ( )
In his lively book Soul of a People, journalist David A. Taylor turns these accusations on their head – investigating what the guides might teach us about US culture during the Great Depression... The strength of Taylor’s book is both its lively writing and its regional focus... The result of Taylor's curiosity is an accessible, straightforward glimpse into some of the most important American writers of the 1930s and 1940s. In the process of recounting their adventures, Taylor demonstrates how these writers shaped the way Americans tell their histories…Those interested may also seek out the DVD companion, Soul of a People: Writing America's Story... [Taylor] has crafted a compelling story of the men and women who captured America's history during the Great Depression, and, in the process, became some of the country's greatest writers and cultural critics. Remarkable. [Best Books of 2009] With accessible prose, a wealth of detail and vintage photos, Taylor recounts the project and some of the writers who benefited from it -- and who benefited the nation with what they produced. Taylor's book takes us back to the Depression days of the 1930s and reminds us that the state guides are still in use today.
Soul of a People is about a handful of people who were on the Federal Writer's Project in the 1930s and a glimpse of America at a turning point. This particular handful of characters went from poverty to great things later, and included John Cheever, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Studs Terkel. In the 1930s they were all caught up in an effort to describe America in a series of WPA guides. Through striking images and firsthand accounts, the book reveals their experiences and the most vivid excerpts from selected guides and interviews: Harlem schoolchildren, truckers, Chicago fishmongers, Cuban cigar makers, a Florida midwife, Nebraskan meatpackers, and blind musicians. Drawing on new discoveries from personal collections, archives, and recent biographies, a new picture has emerged in the last decade of how the participants' individual dramas intersected with the larger picture of their subjects. This book illuminates what it felt like to live that experience, how going from joblessness to reporting on their own communities affected artists with varied visions, as well as what feelings such a passage involved: shame humiliation, anger, excitement, nostalgia, and adventure. Also revealed is how the WPA writers anticipated, and perhaps paved the way for, the political movements of the following decades, including the Civil Rights movement, the Women's Right movement, and the Native American rights movement. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)973.917History and Geography North America United States 1901- Roosevelt Through Truman Administrations F.D. RooseveltLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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