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Taylor, David A.

Soul of a People: The WPA Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America

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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.

Nyckelord: writers? project, writer?s project, writers project, WPA writers? project, WPA writer?s project, WPA writers project, WPA Federal Writers? Project, WPA Federal Writer?s Project, WPA Federal Writers Project, Federal Writers? Project, Federal Writer?s Project, Federal Writers Project, Works Progress Administration, Works Projects Administration, Civil Works Administration, New Deal, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, FDR, Depression, Depression era, John Cheever, Studs Terkel, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Claude McKay, Margaret Walker

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Utgivare
John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Utgivningsår
2009
Språk
en
Utgåva
1
Kategori
Historia
Format
E-bok
eISBN (ePUB)
9780470885888
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9780470403808

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