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From Tobacco Road to Route 66: The Southern Poor White in Fiction

From Tobacco Road to Route 66: The Southern Poor White in Fiction

Cook, Sylvia Jenkins

Paperback

Series: Enduring Editions

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0807873292
ISBN13: 9780807873298
Publisher: Univ Of North Carolina Pr
Published: Sep 1 2012
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
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.

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