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Real folks : race and genre in the Great Depression

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Retman, Sonnet H., 1966-

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Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011.

"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?

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- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism
- Folklore--United States--History--20th century
- Literature and folklore--United States--History--20th century
- United States--History--1933-1945

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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

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1 electronic resource (xiii, 322 pages )

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PS228.F64

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https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2020718008

Library of Congress Control Number

2020718008

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