The social life of poetry : Appalachia, race, and radical modernism /

The social life of poetry : Appalachia, race, and radical modernism /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Green, Chris, 1968-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics.
Subjects:
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
American poetry > Appalachian Region > History and criticism.
European Americans > Race identity.
Whites > Race identity > United States.
Cultural pluralism > United States > History.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
United States > Race relations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Appalachia, race, and pluralism
  • Evangelizing an Anglo equality (1883-1908)
  • New York City's cultural pluralists (1906-1930)
  • Reactionary regionalism versus critical quarterlies (1925-1945)
  • The social life of poetry
  • Racing the land with Jesse Stuart's Man with a bull tongue plow (1934)
  • "Authentic folk feeling" in James Still's Hounds on the mountain (1937)
  • Rebinding "The book of the dead" into Muriel Rukeyser's U.S. 1 (1938)
  • The tight rope of democracy and Don West's Clods of southern earth (1946).