American Modernism and Depression Documentary pdf

American Modernism and Depression Documentary. Associate Professor Jeff Allred

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Author: Associate Professor Jeff Allred
Number of Pages: 288 pages
Published Date: 24 Dec 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
Format: PDF
ISBN: 9780195335682
File Name: American.Modernism.and.Depression.Documentary.pdf
Download Link: American Modernism and Depression Documentary
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American Modernism and Depression Documentary surveys the uneven terrain of American modernity through the lens of the documentary book. Jeff Allred argues that photo-texts of the 1930s stage a set of mediations between rural hinterlands and metropolitan areas, between elite producers of culture and the "forgotten man" of Depression-era culture, between a myth of consensual national unity and various competing ethnic and regional collectivities. In light of the complexity this entails, this study takes issue with a critical tradition that has painted the "documentary expression" of the 1930s as a simplistic and propagandistic divergence from literary modernism. Allred situates these texts, and the "documentary modernism" they represent, as a central part of American modernism and response to American modernity, as he looks at the impoverished sharecroppers depcited in the groundbreaking Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, the disenfranchised African Americans in Richard Wright's polemical 12 Million Black Voices, and the experiments in Depression-era photography found in Life magazine.

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