Real folks race and genre in the Great Depression /

Retman, Sonnet H., 1966-

Real folks race and genre in the Great Depression / [electronic resource] : Sonnet Retman. - Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (xiii, 322 p.) : ill. - e-Duke books scholarly collection. .

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"A combination madhouse, burlesque show and Coney Island" : the color question in George Schuyler's Black no more -- "Inanimate hideosities" : the burlesque of racial capitalism in Nathanael West's A cool million -- "The last American frontier" : mapping the folk in the Federal Writers' Project's Florida : a guide to the southernmost state -- "Ah gives myself de privilege to go" : navigating the field and the folk in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and men -- "Am I laughing"? : burlesque incongruities of genre, gender, and audience in Preston Sturges's Sullivan's travels -- Afterpiece : the Coen brothers' Ol'-timey blues in O brother, where art thou?


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780822393894 (electronic bks.) 0822393891 (electronic bks.)


American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Literature and folklore--History--United States--20th century.
Folklore--History--United States--20th century.
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.


United States--History--1933-1945.


Electronic books.

PS228.F64 / R486 2011