The social life of poetry
Appalachia, race, and radical modernism
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Publication
2009 - Palgrave Macmillan, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
69,750 words, Guess
Page Count
279 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100230610935
- ISBN-139780230610934
- Library of Congress Control Number2009023756
- OCLC Control Number226357062
- Better World Books9780230610934
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- Open LibraryOL24115484M
Classifications
- DDC813/.509974
- LCCPS323.5 G735 2009
- LCCPN843-PN846PN1010-PN
and 1 more
- LCCPS323.5 .G735 2009
Description
From Jewish publishers to Appalachian poets, Green's cultural study reveals the role of "Mountain Whites" in American racial history. Part One (1880-1935) explores the networks that created American pluralism, revealing Appalachia's essential role in shaping America's understanding of African Americans, Anglos, Jews, Southerners, and Immigrants. Drawing upon archival research and deft close readings of poems, Part Two (1934-1946) delves into the inner-workings of literary history and shows how diverse alliances used four books of poetry about Appalachia to change America's notion of race, region, and pluralism. Green starts with how Jesse Stuart and the Agrarians' defended Southern whiteness, follows how James Still appealed to liberals, shows how Muriel Rukeyser put Appalachia at the center of anti-fascism, and ends with how Don West and the Progressives' struggled to form interracial labor unions in the South
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