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Portrait of America : a cultural history of the Federal Writers' Project / by Jerrold Hirsch.

By: Publication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2003.Description: xii, 293 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0807828173 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0807854891 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.917 21
LOC classification:
  • E175.4.W9 H57 2003
Contents:
Part I. Romantic Nationalism, Cultural Pluralism, and the Federal Writers' Project : 1. Inherited Questions -- 2. Visions and Constituencies: Introducing and Writing the American Guide Series -- 3. A New Deal View of American History and Art: The Federal Writers' Project Guidebook Essays -- 4. Picturesque Pluralism: The Guidebook Tours. Part II: Modernity, Cultural Pluralism, and the Federal Writers' Project : 5. Long Live Participation!: Ethnicity, Race, and the Federal Writers' Project -- 6. Before Columbia: The Federal Writers' Project and American Oral History Research -- 7. The People Must Be Heard: W. T. Couch and the Southern Life History Program -- 8. Toward a Marriage of True Minds: The Federal Writers' Project and the Writing of Southern Folk History. Part III: Denouement : 9. Conflicting Definitions of America: The Dies Committee and the Writers' Project -- 10. Reform, Culture, and Patriotism: The Writers' Project Becomes the Writers' Program, 1939-1943. Epilogue: Have You Discovered America?
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks E175.4 .W9 H57 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039000696665

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-281) and index.

Part I. Romantic Nationalism, Cultural Pluralism, and the Federal Writers' Project : 1. Inherited Questions -- 2. Visions and Constituencies: Introducing and Writing the American Guide Series -- 3. A New Deal View of American History and Art: The Federal Writers' Project Guidebook Essays -- 4. Picturesque Pluralism: The Guidebook Tours. Part II: Modernity, Cultural Pluralism, and the Federal Writers' Project : 5. Long Live Participation!: Ethnicity, Race, and the Federal Writers' Project -- 6. Before Columbia: The Federal Writers' Project and American Oral History Research -- 7. The People Must Be Heard: W. T. Couch and the Southern Life History Program -- 8. Toward a Marriage of True Minds: The Federal Writers' Project and the Writing of Southern Folk History. Part III: Denouement : 9. Conflicting Definitions of America: The Dies Committee and the Writers' Project -- 10. Reform, Culture, and Patriotism: The Writers' Project Becomes the Writers' Program, 1939-1943. Epilogue: Have You Discovered America?

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