Real folks race and genre in the Great Depression /

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Main Author: Retman, Sonnet H., 1966-
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011.
Series:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Table of Contents:
  • "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?