From Tobacco Road to Route 66 : the southern poor white in fiction

Title:

From Tobacco Road to Route 66 : the southern poor white in fiction

Author:

Cook, Sylvia Jenkins, 1943-

Publication Information:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1976.

Format:

Books

Carrier Type:

xiv, 208 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject Term:

American fiction -- Southern States -- History and criticism.

American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

Sharecroppers in literature.

Working class whites in literature.

Poor in literature.

Geographic Term:

Southern States -- In literature.

ISBN:

9780807812648

Available:*

Library	Material Type	Call Number	Child Count	Shelf Location	Status	Item Holds
Searching... West	Book	813.09 C77	1	Non-fiction Collection	Searching... Unknown	Searching... Unavailable

In the early nineteenth century, the southern poor white had a reputation for comic vulgarity and absurd violence; postbellum writers saw him as a quaint peasant; the 1920s transformed him into a revolutionary proletarian. Of the literary treatments discussed, Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath emerges as a skillful compromise of documentary accuracy and political daring by reviving the tradition of degeneracy.

Originally published in 1976.

A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Preface	p. ix
Chapter I The Development of the Poor White Tradition	p. 3
Chapter II The Image in the Twentieth Century	p. 18
Chapter III Faulkner's Celebration of the Poor White Paradox	p. 39
Chapter IV Caldwell's Politics of the Grotesque	p. 64
Chapter V The Gastonia Strike and Proletarian Possibilities	p. 85
Chapter VI Poor Whites, Feminists, and Marxists	p. 98
Chapter VII Sex and Class Consciousness Among the Poor Whites	p. 125
Chapter VIII Agee's Aesthetic of an Unimagined Existence	p. 143
Chapter IX Steinbeck's Retreat into Artfulness	p. 159
Chapter X The Transformation of the Poor White in the Depression	p. 184
Notes	p. 189
Selected Bibliography	p. 197
Index	p. 205

Available:*

Bound With These Titles

On Order

Summary

Summary

Table of Contents