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Voices of Persuasion : Politics of Representation in 1930s America - No Information Available

Voices of Persuasion

Politics of Representation in 1930s America

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Hardcover | 31 October 1994

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In this innovative study, Michael Staub recasts 1930s cultural history by analysing those genres so characteristic of the Depression era: Staub argues that several thirties writers - precisely because of their encounters with disinherited peoples - anticipated the dilemmas poststructuralist theory would identify; an awareness of the ambiguousness of historical truth, and the impossibility of representing reality without being complicit in its distortion. New interpretations of such canonised authors as James Agee, John Dos Passos, Zora Neale Hurston, John G. Neihardt, and Tille Olsen are coupled with critical discussions of previously little-known works of ethnography, journalism, oral history and polemical fiction. This book will interest all who are concerned with the problematic relationship betweeen representation and social reality and their mutual inextricability.
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"...provides a series of persuasive readings of the key role played by voice in early twentieth-century 'fact-based' texts." the minnesota review "Staub examines the struggles of turning oral memories of 19th-century events into text without erasing the Native American 'voice'...Recommended for undergraduate and graduate libraries." J. C. Kohl, Choice "...offers subtle and persuasive readings that substantially expand our appreciation of the sophistication of 1930s documentary writing. It is indispensable reading for anyone engaged in current revisionary work on Depression-era culture." Barbara Foley, American Literature

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