Reading southern poverty between the wars, 1918-1939 / edited by Richard Godden and Martin Crawford.

Other author Godden, Richard, 1946-
Other author Crawford, Martin, 1948-
Format Book
Publication InfoAthens : University of Georgia Press, ©2006.
Descriptionxvi, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Poverty--Southern States. --History. --20th century.
Poverty in literature.
Southern States--Economic conditions. --1918-.

Contents Three agrarianisms and the idea of a South without poverty / Ted Ownby -- Dissonant encounters : FSA photographers and the southern underclass, 1935-1943 / Stuart Kidd -- Not readily visualized by industrial workers and urban dwellers : published images of rural women from the FSA collection, 1935-1937 / Siobhan Davis -- Murder, "convict flogging affairs," and debt peonage: the roaring twenties in the American South / Vivien M.L. Miller -- "Ain't worth a damn for nothin'" : the New Deal and child labor in southern textiles / Clive Webb -- From Memphis to Bandung : the political uses of hunger in Richard Wright's Black boy / Andrew Warnes -- "All manner of defeated, shiftless, shifty, pathetic, and interesting good people" : autobiographical encounters with southern poverty / John C. Inscoe -- Creating "Nate Shaw" : the making and remaking of All God's dangers / James C. Giesen -- A southern writer and class war in the mountains : Grace Lumpkin's To make my bread / Richard Gray -- Rural poverty and the heroics of farming : Elizabeth Madox Roberts's The time of man and Ellen Glasgow's Barren ground / Peter Nicolaisen -- Trashing modernism : Erskine Caldwell on the southern poor / John T. Matthews -- Marginalization and mobility : segregation and the representation of southern poor whites / Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2005036669
ISBN0820327085 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780820327082 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780820327082