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

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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Author: Sylvia Jenkins Cook
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 09/01/2012
Pages: 222
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780807873298